one o'clock in the morning
The children were much excited over the events of the preceding night -- over the play and the feast which had followed . Anne , too , was excited . On the way to school she had met Richard , and he had joined her and had told her of his first patient . `` I had to walk at one o'clock in the morning . I must get a horse or a car . I am not quite sure that I ought to afford a car . And I like the idea of a horse .