eight o'clock in the morning
The night seemed to have no end . Polly felt as if she had lain there a hundred hours , and yet no sign of day . She wondered if God had forgotten to wake up the world -- and then she slept . It was so that Dr. Dudley found them at eight o'clock in the morning . When Polly came to herself her father and mother were talking of the great storm , the delay of his train , and of her sudden illness . But Polly 's story of the night sent the Doctor in haste to the aid of the injured ankle . One glance at the swollen foot , and he whipped a pair of scissors from his pocket , inserting a blade underneath the leather .