three o'clock
He would get up , and be off before dawn ; he put his things out ready , and filled his flask . The moonlight that evening was more wonderful than ever , the mountains like great ghosts of themselves . And she was up there at the hut , among them ! It was very long before he went to sleep , brooding over his injuries -- intending not to sleep at all , so as to be ready to be off at three o'clock . At NINE o'clock he woke . His wrath was gone ; he only felt restless and ashamed . If , instead of flying out , he had made the best of it , he could have gone with them as far as the hut , could have stayed the night there .