three in the morning
And then he walked firmly out of Romfrey oakwoods , and , at a mile 's distance from her , related to his countess Rosamund that the burial was over without much silly ceremony , and that she needed to know nothing of it whatever . Rosamund 's face awoke him . It was the face of a chalk-quarry , featureless , hollowed , appalling . The hour was no later than three in the morning . He quitted the detestable bed where a dream -- one of some half-dozen in the course of his life-had befallen him . For the maxim of the healthy man is : up , and have it out in exercise when sleep is for foisting base coin of dreams upon you ! And as the healthy only are fit to live , their maxims should be law .