two o’clock in the morning
Two years ! Section 7 . From visions such as this Thyrsis came back to wrestle with all the problems of a household ; with pumps that froze and drains that clogged , with stoves that went out and ashes that spilled , with milk-boys that were late and kitchen-maids that were snow-bound . He would leave his work at one or two o'clock in the morning , and make his way through the snow and the storm to the house , and crawl into bed , and then take his chances of being awakened by the baby , or by some spell of agony with Corydon . He might not sleep alone ; that supreme symbol of domesticity Corydon could not give up , and he soon ceased to ask for it . It seemed such a little thing to yield ; and yet it meant so much to him ! The room where he slept came to seem to him a chamber of terror , a place to which he went `` like the galley-slave at night , scourged to his dungeon '' .