two o'clock before
Nevertheless , he put them into halfpenny wrappes and sent them away . In the struggle to produce these things he had not found that fortnight wearisome . Before him , every day , there was the evening when Stephen would return , to which he might look forward . Stephen was always very late -- often it was two o'clock before he came in , but they had a talk before going to sleep . And here in these evenings Stephen developed in the most wonderful way , developed because Peter had really never known him before . Stephen had never appeared to Peter as a character at all . In the early days Peter had been too young .