two in the morning
`` Well , that your daughter threw over that young ass , Stephen Layard , because -- the story seems to me incredible , I admit -- she had fallen violently in love with Morris . Further that she and the said Morris were seen embracing at night on the Rectory road , which I do n't believe , as the witnesses are Layard , who is prejudiced , and his sister , who is the most ill-bred , bitter , and disappointed woman in the county . Lastly , and this is no doubt true , that they are generally on terms of great intimacy , and we all know where that leads to between a man and woman -- ` Plato , thy confounded fantasies , ' etc. . You see , when people sit up singing to each other alone till two in the morning -- I do n't mean that Morris sings , he has no more voice than a crow ; he does the appreciative audience -- well , other people will talk , wo n't they ? '' `` I suppose so , the world being what it is , '' sighed Mr. Fregelius . `` Exactly ; the world being what it is , and men and women what they are , a most unregenerate lot and ` au fond ' very primitive , as I daresay you may have observed . '' `` What is to be done ? ''