two o'clock
This work was in his mind when he spoke so vehemently at Moxey 's ; already he had trembled with an impulse to write something on the subject , and during his journey home a possible essay had begun to shape itself . Late as was the hour he could not prepare for sleep . His brain throbbed with a congestion of thought ; he struggled to make clear the lines on which his satire might direct itself . By two o'clock he had flung down on paper a conglomerate of burning ideas , and thus relieved he at length went to bed . Two days later came a note from Staple Inn , inviting him to meet Malkin the next evening . By this time he had made a beginning of his critical essay , and the exordium so far satisfied him that he was tempted to take it for Earwaker 's judgment . But no ; better his friend should see the thing when it was complete .