1:30 in the morning
`` It 's perfectly clear , Horace , '' he insisted . `` But remember this when you try to work it out ; it is necessary to use motion as a translator of time into space , or of space into time . '' `` I do n't intend to work it out , '' I said irritably . `` But I mean to use motion as a translator of the time , which is 1:30 in the morning , to take me to a certain space , which is where I live . '' But as it happened , I did not go into my house when I reached it . I was wide awake , and I perceived , on looking up at my wife 's windows , that the lights were out . As it is her custom to wait up for me on those rare occasions when I spend an evening away from home , I surmised that she was comfortably asleep , and made my way to the pharmacy to which the Wellses ' governess had referred .