one o'clock in the morning
`` Still pick me out , '' she supplied . `` Well , the important thing is that you _ did _ pick me out -- and that you 're a gentleman . Also you forget that your picture has been pretty prominent lately , on account of the Du Portal affair ; and besides you 've been pointed out to me a number of times during the last few years as something of a celebrity . So , you see , it was not a great trick to recognize you under the electric lights , even at one o'clock in the morning . '' Harleston nodded . It was plausible surely . Moreover , he was prepared to accept her story ; thus far it seemed straightforward and extremely credible .