about ten minutes past five in the morning
The probable reception of Lady Harman by her husband never came within his imaginative scope . Nor did the problems of social responsibility that Lady Harman had been trying to put to him exercise him very greatly . The personal disillusionment was too strong for that . About half-past four a faint ray of comfort came with the consideration that after all a certain practical incapacity is part of the ensemble of a literary artist , and then he found himself wondering what flowers of wisdom Montaigne might not have culled from such a day 's experience ; he began an imitative essay in his head and he fell asleep upon this at last at about ten minutes past five in the morning . There were better things than this in the composition of Mr. Brumley , we shall have to go deep into these reserves before we have done with him , but when he had so recently barked the shins of his self-esteem they had no chance at all . So it was that the great and long incubated quarrel between Lady Harman and her husband broke into active hostilities . In spite of my ill-concealed bias in favour of Lady Harman I have to confess that she began this conflict rashly , planlessly , with no equipment and no definite end .