two o’clock in the morning
`` Well , what if it does ? '' She could n't tell him , for the rest of her guests came in together ; she only had time to say : `` It _ sha 'n' t _ go to the dogs ! '' He came away before the others , restless with the desire to go to Notting Hill even that night , late as it was , haunted with the sense that Violet Grey had measured her fall . When he got into the street , however , he allowed second thoughts to counsel another course ; the effect of knocking her up at two o'clock in the morning would hardly be to soothe her . He looked at six newspapers the next day and found in them never a good word for her . They were well enough about the piece , but they were unanimous as to the disappointment caused by the young actress whose former efforts had excited such hopes and on whom , on this occasion , such pressing responsibilities rested . They asked in chorus what was the matter with her , and they declared in chorus that the play , which was not without promise , was handicapped -LRB- they all used the same word -RRB- by the odd want of correspondence between the heroine and her interpreter .