two o'clock in the morning
`` It is no business of yours , Mr. Annesley . '' `` Except that I would fain think that her business should be mine . '' But he could not prevail with Mrs. Mountjoy either on this day or the next to allow him to see Florence , and at last was obliged to leave Cheltenham without having done so . A few days after the visits to Cheltenham , described in the last chapters , Harry Annesley , coming down a passage by the side of the Junior United Service Club into Charles Street , suddenly met Captain Scarborough at two o'clock in the morning . Where Harry had been at that hour need not now be explained , but it may be presumed that he had not been drinking tea with any of his female relatives . Captain Scarborough had just come out of some neighboring club , where he had certainly been playing , and where , to all appearances , he had been drinking also . That there should have been no policemen in the street was not remarkable , but there was no one else there present to give any account of what took place during the five minutes in which the two men remained together .