about one o'clock
`` The families believe that no invitation beyond the present notice will be necessary , and that the citizens of Frankfort will not fail in their duty . `` The funeral arrangements for the burgomaster will be in the hands of his brother-in-law , Councillor Kugler , and those of Major Frederic von Bülow in the hands of M. Benedict Turpin , his executor . '' We will not endeavour to depict the homes of the two bereaved families . Madame von Bülow arrived about one o'clock on the morning of the 24th . Everybody in the house was up , and all were praying round the deathbed . Some of the principal ladies of the town had come and were awaiting her return ; she was received like an angel bearing the mercies of heaven . But after a few minutes the pious duty that had brought her so swiftly to her husband 's side was remembered .