nearly two o'clock
` What queer feeling ? ' ` I told you about it , and you were very sympathetic the other night , before dinner . A kind of emptiness in the feet , and a hollowness in the head , the feeling almost , but not quite , of faintness . ' ` It 's nearly two o'clock . Perhaps you 're hungry , ' said Madame Frabelle . Bruce thought this was not fair , putting all the hunger on to him , as if she had never felt anything so prosaic . Madame Frabelle always behaved as if she were superior to the weaknesses of hunger or sleep , and denied ever suffering from either .