two o'clock in the morning
You 're not so mighty pure as all that ! Take a minute . I can wait , '' and he flung himself on to a bench and lit a cheroot . Then , in Digby Square , at two o'clock in the morning , the devil tempted `` Jimmy '' Medland . The man had indeed hit him close -- very close . He had hit him in the love he bore his daughter , and in the love he bore her mother and her mother 's fame . He had hit him in his love of place and power , and his nobler joy in using them for what seemed to him good purposes .