about two o'clock in the morning
She took a thread off his coat . `` Only do n't let her come interfering in my kitchen , '' she said , and hurried him away . He had a good deal of courage , but he had not enough to tell Nora he was going to Newport to stop her darling 's marriage . The Newport boat gets to Newport about two o'clock in the morning , and experienced travelers , if any such choose this method of approach , go on to Fall River and take a train back to Newport , arriving in time for a comfortable nine-o'clock breakfast . But Ben was not experienced , and he supposed that when you took a boat for Newport and reached Newport the thing to do was to get off the boat . It had been a wonderful night on the Sound , and Ben had not been to bed , partly because , applying late on a Friday evening , he had not been able to get a room , but partly because the moon and the southerly breeze and the silver shores of Long Island and the red and white lighthouses had been too beautiful to leave . Besides , he had wanted to think out carefully what he was going to say to his brother .