about four o'clock
The intoxication of it banished thought and silenced regret . But it was plain to all the world , no less than to Mrs. Hooper , that Falloden of Marmion , who had seemed to be in possession of her the night before , had been brusquely banished from her side ; that Oxford 's charming newcomer had put her supposed suitor to open contumely ; and that young Radowitz reigned in his stead . * * * * * Radowitz walked home in a whirl of sensations and recollections that made of the Oxford streets an `` insubstantial fairy place , '' where only Constance lived . He entered Marmion about four o'clock in a pearly light of dawn . Impossible to go to bed or to sleep ! He would change his clothes , go out for a bathe , and walk up into the Cumnor hills . In the quadrangle he passed a group of men in evening dress returned like himself from the ball .