three o'clock in the morning
`` Then you will ? '' he asked . `` But -- it 's such an awful step to take ! '' Francis leaned back -- she could feel him do it , in the dark -- and began to argue as coolly as if it were not three o'clock in the morning , on an unfrequented road . `` The most of the step is taken . You have n't anything to do but just go on as you are -- no packing or walking or letter-writing or anything of the sort . Simply stay here in the car with me and end at the place in Canada , live there and let me be around more or less .