two o'clock
` At two , ' the editor answered . ` I 'll send a cab for him , ' Arthur said ; ` there 'll be none about at that hour , probably . Will you kindly tell him it 's waiting for him ? ' At two o'clock or a little after , Ernest drove home with his heart on fire , full of eagerness and swelling hope for to-morrow morning . He found Edie waiting for him , late as it was , with a little bottle of wine -- an unknown luxury at Mrs. Halliss 's lodgings -- and such light supper as she thought he could manage to swallow in his excitement . Ernest drank a glass of the wine , but left the supper untasted . Then he went to bed , and tossed about uneasily till morning .