about one o’clock
Well , there continued to be plenty of chance for nerve . On the eleventh night after my latest encounter with that gentleman -- they were all numbered now -- I had an alarm that perilously skirted it and that indeed , from the particular quality of its unexpectedness , proved quite my sharpest shock . It was precisely the first night during this series that , weary with watching , I had felt that I might again without laxity lay myself down at my old hour . I slept immediately and , as I afterward knew , till about one o'clock ; but when I woke it was to sit straight up , as completely roused as if a hand had shook me . I had left a light burning , but it was now out , and I felt an instant certainty that Flora had extinguished it . This brought me to my feet and straight , in the darkness , to her bed , which I found she had left . A glance at the window enlightened me further , and the striking of a match completed the picture .