ten
minutes after four
That my throbbing heart gainsays . You can not see me just now , but the palpitating heart infects my fingers , and the unsteady pen will speak to you eloquently . I wonder how far sympathy possesses you . No doubt -- let me see : _ ten minutes after four _ , -- no doubt you are sound asleep . Care has fled away to some other head . Those invisible communicants , those aerial heralds whose existence , benignity , and seasonable succour are parts , thou knowest , of _ my _ creed , are busy in the weaving of some beatific dream . At their bidding the world of thy fancy is circumscribed by four white walls , a Turkey-carpeted floor , and a stuccoed ceiling .