about three o'clock in the morning
Yet Aurora was not feigning . She entertained no doubt that with proper care he would get well . And she was providing the care . Hence a confidence which she did not allow any of those chilly creepy fears which come at about three o'clock in the morning to undermine . She was so strongly resolved to get him well , and felt so capable of doing it , that it would not seem unlikely her very hands in touching him had virtue and imparted health . He said very little , even when the exertion of talking had ceased to make him cough . The fact that talk fatigued him was reinforced by his old fancy that talk was superfluous .