three in the morning
She could hear his steps coming from Grosvenor Square . Her poor father ! Every night it was the same ceaseless pacing to and fro . She had heard her mother say that he sometimes walked till three in the morning . She had watched him a night or two ago out of her window . It was freezing hard , and he had on only an old grey suit of clothes buttoned tightly , and a comforter round his neck . Her father 's subordination in the house was one of the mysteries which confronted Agnes .