four in the morning
`` But we must really go , '' she announced , finally . `` We have a long stretch out in the open creek after we leave the slough , and it is not so easy to keep the channel after dark . I have lost track of things and do n't remember what time the moon rises . You can come every day if you like ; and four in the morning is the best time if you are energetic enough -- '' `` I would get up at midnight -- stay up all night . But I am quite willing to return now -- and not for tea . I should like several of these ducks for supper , if your Jap is less haughty than mine . '' Their way lay through the middle of the marsh-land .