four o'clock in the morning
If she had failed him he would have gone down , and now here was his son 's wife -- another woman -- presumably formed for the same purpose , leaking away from under him at the very first sign of weather . He thought of Estelle with a staggered horror ; she had looked soft and sweet -- just the woman to minister to a knocked-out man . The trouble with her was she had no guts . Sir Peter woke his wife up at four o'clock in the morning to shout this fact into her ear . Lady Staines said , `` Well -- whoever said she had ? '' and apparently went to sleep again . But Sir Peter did n't go to sleep : Estelle reminded him of how he had once been done over a mare , a beautiful , fine stepping lady-like creature who looked as if she were made of velvet and steel , no vice in her and every point correct ; and then what had happened ?