one o'clock in the morning
There must have been things not fit for a man to hear . But shortly , and as far as my bewilderment allowed me to grasp its naive atrociousness , it was something like this : that no consideration , no delicacy , no tenderness , no scruples should stand in the way of a woman -LRB- who by the mere fact of her sex was the predestined victim of conditions created by men 's selfish passions , their vices and their abominable tyranny -RRB- from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence . She had even the right to go out of existence without considering anyone 's feelings or convenience since some women 's existences were made impossible by the shortsighted baseness of men . I looked at her , sitting before the lamp at one o'clock in the morning , with her mature , smooth-cheeked face of masculine shape robbed of its freshness by fatigue ; at her eyes dimmed by this senseless vigil . I looked also at Fyne ; the mud was drying on him ; he was obviously tired . The weariness of solemnity . But he preserved an unflinching , endorsing , gravity of expression .