two in the morning
Lord ! I would like to hear ` Miss Drummond o ' Perth ' or ` Gray Daylicht ' -- they might buck me up a bit . I 'll just slip out for ten minutes , to see what they 're doing , and be back directly . '' He came back at two in the morning , staggering . On a bleak spring evening , near the end of February , young Gourlay had gone to the Howff , to escape the shuddering misery of the streets . It was that treacherous spring weather which blights . Only two days ago the air had been sluggish and balmy ; now an easterly wind nipped the gray city , naked and bare .