two in the morning
I went in and took a good survey of him and his lodgings together , in the character of a bootmaker , taking home a pair of boots , which was intended for a Mr. Everfield in the next street , says I , and , of course , Everfield and Eversleigh being a ` most the same names , was calculated to lead to inconvenient mistakes . In the character of the bootmaker , Sir Reginald Eversleigh tells me to get out of his room , and be -- something uncommonly unpleasant , and unfit for the ears of ladies . In the character of the bootmaker , I scrapes acquaintance with a young person employed as housemaid , and very willing to answer questions , and be drawed out . From the young person employed as housemaid , I gets what I take the liberty to call my ground-plan of the baronet 's habits ; beginning with his late breakfast , consisting chiefly of gunpowder tea and cayenne pepper , and ending with the scroop of his latch-key , to be heard any time from two in the morning to day-break . From the young person employed as housemaid , I discover that my baronet always spends his evenings out of doors , and is known to visit a lady at Fulham very constant , whereby the young person employed as housemaid supposes he is keeping company with her . From the same young person I obtain the lady 's address -- which piece of information the young person has acquired in the course of taking letters to the post . The lady 's address is Hilton House , Fulham .