six in the morning
I want you to tell me about him . I 'm in dangerous country and I need a map . '' `` I should be inclined to vary the metaphor a little and call him an uncharted sea , '' Val smiled as he threw one leg over the other and settled himself among his cushions . He was dead tired , having been up since six in the morning and on his feet or in the saddle all day . `` But I 'm at your service , subject always to the proviso that I 'm Bernard 's agent , which makes my position rather delicate . What is it you want to know ? '' Since it was whether Clowes behaved decently to his wife , Lawrence shifted in his chair and flicked the ash from his cigar .