four o'clock
And its separate pointers were not even so big and bright as Venus . She felt , somehow , that she had been cheated a little ; and immediately told herself that it was not so really -- either she had expected too much , or else she was not clever enough to see what was really there all the time . She did not go to sleep all the night . It was at four o'clock that she crept quietly from underneath the blankets and sat on the coping , perilously near the edge of the outer wall , with the dawn wind from the sea blowing deliciously cold through her thin nightgown . Daybreak came like the rolling up of a blind ; thoughts and memories chased each other in her mind . She looked across at Louis , fast asleep . Her impulse told her to waken and ask him to kiss her good morning .