three o'clock before
To be sworn at like a golf-sphere , just because one day I could n't find my _ Poudre d'Amour _ ... . And , when he 'd quite finished , the Colonel asked me what powder was for . I just looked round and gave him some of his own back . ` To dam your pores with , ' I said ... '' It was past three o'clock before our departure was sped . Comfortably weary , we reached our own villa 's door to make the grisly discovery that no one had remembered the key ... . There was no knocker : a feeble electric bell signalled out distress to a deserted basement : the servants were asleep upon the second floor . After we had all reviled Berry and , in return , been denounced as ` a gang of mut-jawed smoke-stacks , ' accused of ` blasphemy ' and compared to ` jackals and vultures about a weary bull , ' we began to shout and throw stones at the second-floor windows .