About three o'clock in the morning
But as nobody was there to see him , -- which , Mr. Twist sometimes thought when he caught sight of himself in his pyjamas at bed-time , is one of the comforts of being virtuously unmarried , -- nobody minded . His reflections were many and various , and they conflicted with and contradicted each other as the reflections of persons in a difficult position who have Mr. Twist 's sort of temperament often do . Faced by a dribbling teapot , an object which touched none of the softer emotions , Mr. Twist soared undisturbed in the calm heights of a detached and concentrated intelligence , and quickly knew what to do with it ; faced by the derelict Annas his heart and his tenderness got in the ways of any clear vision . About three o'clock in the morning , when his mind was choked and strewn with much pulled-about and finally discarded plans , he suddenly had an idea . A real one . As far as he could see , a real good one . He would place the Annas in a school .