two in the morning before
he added , `` I have it . Here is something that will serve you for an introduction , and can not compromise me . '' And he wrote his name and the Edinburgh lawyer 's address on a piece of card and tossed it to me . What with packing , signing papers , and partaking of an excellent cold supper in the lawyer 's room , it was past two in the morning before we were ready for the road . Romaine himself let us out of a window in a part of the house known to Rowley : it appears it served as a kind of postern to the servants ' hall , by which -LRB- when they were in the mind for a clandestine evening -RRB- they would come regularly in and out ; and I remember very well the vinegar aspect of the lawyer on the receipt of this piece of information -- how he pursed his lips , jutted his eyebrows , and kept repeating , `` This must be seen to , indeed ! this shall be barred to-morrow in the morning ! '' In this preoccupation I believe he took leave of me without observing it ; our things were handed out ; we heard the window shut behind us ; and became instantly lost in a horrid intricacy of blackness and the shadow of woods .