eight o'clock
I 'll stand a good deal , but I wo n't stand for being expected to be grateful . '' Looking back at it , I see that what saved me from Colney Hatch in that crisis was my bright idea of buying up most of the contents of the local sweet-shop . By serving out sweets to the kid practically incessantly we managed to get through the rest of that day pretty satisfactorily . At eight o'clock he fell asleep in a chair , and , having undressed him by unbuttoning every button in sight and , where there were no buttons , pulling till something gave , we carried him up to bed . Freddie stood looking at the pile of clothes on the floor and I knew what he was thinking . To get the kid undressed had been simple -- a mere matter of muscle . But how were we to get him into his clothes again ?