one o’clock
One is grateful for mercies , but does not groan over them like rheumatism or the lumbago . ' ` Maybe I ` in a little out of spirits to-day . ' ` I should n't wonder if you were . They tell me you sat over your wine , with that tall man , last night , till nigh one o'clock , and it 's not at your time of life that you can do these sort of excesses with impunity ; you had a good constitution once , and there 's not much left of it . ' ` My patience , I 'm grateful to see , has not quite deserted me . ' ` I hope there 's other of your virtues you can be more sure of , ' said she , rising , ` for if I was asked your worst failing , I 'd say it was your irritability . ' And with a stern frown , as though to confirm the judicial severity of her words , she nodded her head to him and walked away .