seven o'clock in the morning
Suddenly as he approached the garden front he saw that two windows of his mother 's sitting-room were open , and that some one -- a figure in black -- was sitting in a high-backed arm-chair beside one of them . His mother ! -- up ? -- at seven o'clock in the morning ? Yet was it his mother ? He came nearer . The figure was motionless -- the head thrown back , the eyes invisible from where he stood .