two o'clock
in the morning
It was lack of this information which made it difficult to analyze the situation intelligently . Had he done right in withholding from his uncle the fact of his unusual encounter with this girl ? He imagined the laugh with which the Honorable Milton would be likely to greet relation of the incident . If it were true that there was no use in sending a boy on a man 's errand , what about a woman on a spying expedition in a thick fog at two o'clock in the morning ? Perhaps her story of the party at a friend 's house was true , after all . Perhaps she and this `` Joe '' were a pair of sneak thieves -- ! But he _ knew _ she was n't , just as he knew that she was a girl of education and refinement .