two o'clock in the morning
`` Ouf ! '' thought Truesdale . `` Girls -- they 're alike , every one of 'em , after all ! '' It was two o'clock in the morning when Jane said good-bye to Theodore Brower in the vestibule and burst into the house . There was a light burning in the library , and thitherward Jane swept in high feather . Her father was sitting there ; as she entered he took up a newspaper that he had completely read out three hours before . `` Why , poppy ! ''