two o'clock in the morning
In the American bar at the St. James ' he met a man named Ingram , who suggested that they should go to see a mutual friend -- an artist -- who lived in Bedford Park . Jack agreed , and they drove in a cab . They found a lot of other men they knew at the studio , and whisky and tobacco made the hours fly . They left at two o'clock in the morning -- a convivial party of five -- and they had to walk to Hammersmith before they picked up a hansom . They dropped off one by one , and Jack was the only occupant when he reached Sloane street . It was long past four when the cab put him down at his lodgings on the Surrey side . Another day dawned , as wet and gloomy as the preceding ones .