three o'clock in the morning
Who will judge him ? He had been what he had been ; and as the Era was , so was he . Verily , one generation passeth away , and another generation cometh . When Mr. Isaac Worthington arrived at Mr. Duncan 's house , where he was staying , at three o'clock in the morning , he saw to his surprise light from the library windows lying in bars across the lawn under the trees . He found Mr. Duncan in that room with Somers , his son , who had just returned from a seaside place , and they were discussing a very grave event . Miss Janet Duncan had that day eloped with a gentleman who -- to judge from the photograph Somers held -- was both handsome and romantic-looking . He had long hair and burning eyes , and a title not to be then verified , and he owned a castle near some place on the peninsula of Italy not on the map .