four o'clock in the morning
She described it with so much zest that Rose was seized with a sort of alarm . ` You will live there like all the lords and ladies that papa talks of , and grow worldly and fashionable . ' ` Oh no , no , ' cried Constance , and there was a girlish kissing match , but Rose seemed to think worldliness inevitable . ` The Earl my papa lived with used to bet and gamble , and come home dreadfully late at night , and so did my lady and her daughters , and their poor maid had to sit up for them till four o'clock in the morning . Then their bills ! They never told his lordship , but they sold their diamonds and wore paste . His lordship did not know , but their maid did , and told papa . '