five o'clock in the morning
`` Why , yes , I could do that , and have my trunk sent on to-morrow . In that case I 'd avoid riding back with Saunders and be there early in the morning . Surely she will be quiet that long . '' Mostyn reached the city at five o'clock in the morning . The sun was just rising over the chimneys and dun roofs of the buildings . He lived in the house of his widowed sister , Mrs. John Perkins Moore , in a quiet but fashionable street , and thither he went in one of the numbered cabs which , in charge of slouching negro drivers , meet all trains at the big station . At his sister 's house no one was stirring ; even the servants were still abed .