four in the morning
To be snowed-up makes it quite an adventure . '' `` Pretty adventure for the gentry at ` The Dogs ' ! Tom Ryder , the dairyman there , managed to struggle across just now with the milk , and he says that a score of them could n't get beds in the town for love or money . The rest kept it up till four in the morning , and now they 're sleeping in their fine dresses round the fire in the Orange Room . '' Dorothea laughed . `` They were caught like this just eighteen years ago -- let me see -- yes , just eighteen . I remember , because it was my second ball .