about two o'clock
`` I did not know your father suffered from sleeplessness , '' he said . `` It must be horribly trying and depressing . I am glad , in a way , you have told me , because it may account for my seeing him go out into the garden from the study last night , or rather very early this morning . It would be about two o'clock . I put down his appearance to another cause , and '' -- He smiled at her , delightfully ingratiating , assaugingly apologetic . `` Shall I own it ? -- one which , frankly , struck me as a little upsetting and the reverse of pleasant . ''