two o'clock in the morning
But when I have a dance I like to enjoy myself : and Mary Smith often said I was the very best partner at our assemblies . While we were dancing , I told Lady Jane how Roundhand , Gutch , and I , had come down three in a cab , besides the driver ; and my account of our adventures made her Ladyship laugh , I warrant you . Lucky it was for me that I did n't go back in the same vehicle ; for the driver went and intoxicated himself at the `` Yellow Lion , '' threw out Gutch and our head clerk as he was driving them back , and actually fought Gutch afterwards and blacked his eye , because he said that Gutch 's red waistcoat frightened the horse . Lady Jane , however , spared me such an uncomfortable ride home : for she said she had a fourth place in her carriage , and asked me if I would accept it ; and positively , at two o'clock in the morning , there was I , after setting the ladies and my Lord down , driven to Salisbury Square in a great thundering carriage , with flaming lamps and two tall footmen , who nearly knocked the door and the whole little street down with the noise they made at the rapper . You should have seen Gus 's head peeping out of window in his white nightcap ! He kept me up the whole night telling him about the ball , and the great people I had seen there ; and next day he told at the office my stories , with his own usual embroideries upon them . `` Mr. Titmarsh , '' said Lady Fanny , laughing to me , `` who is that great fat curious man , the master of the house ?