three o'clock in the morning
Clara approached a porter and told him to take their luggage to the hotel . ` We can stay there while we look about us , ' she said . She had learned that when Charles talked about money it was best to ignore him . She took cheap rooms at the top of the hotel , with a view out over the river to the Surrey hills , and there until three o'clock in the morning Charles smoked cigars and talked , as only he could talk , of art and Italy and Paris -- which they had left without paying their rent -- and the delights and abominations of London . ` I feel satisfied now that you were right , ' he said . ` Here we are in London and I shall begin to do my real work . I shall have a secretary and an advertising agent , and I shall talk to London in the language it understands ... .