one o'clock
The doctor had straitly forbidden me to enter Phillis 's room ; but opening out of it was the apartment that was used as her nursery . There would be a fire there : I would spend the rest of the night on a sofa in front of it . I looked at my watch . It was one o'clock . I took a candle , walked softly down the passage , and let myself quietly into the nursery . The door leading into Phillis 's room was ajar , and a slight smell of some drug or disinfectant assailed my sharpened senses . The room was in darkness , except that a good fire burned in the grate .