nearly one o'clock in the morning
So it came to being Cattley 's or nothing . '' Sally certainly had the faculty of cutting a long story short . She thought the story , so cut , one that her mother and Mr. Fenwick might have shown a more active interest in , instead of saying it was time for all of us to be in bed . She did not , however , ascribe to them any external preoccupation -- merely an abstract love of Truth ; for was it not nearly one o'clock in the morning ? Nevertheless , a little incident of Mr. Fenwick 's departure , not noticed at the moment , suddenly assumed vitality just as Sally was `` going off , '' and woke her up . What was it she overheard her mother say to him , just as he was leaving the house , about something she had promised to tell him some time ? However , reflection on it with waking faculties dissipated the importance it seemed to have half-way to dreamland , and Sally went contentedly to sleep again .