three in the morning
Dan Treu laughed . `` You 've got her sized up right in that way , Dago . I know a fellow that was sick and had to cache the chocolate and things his folks sent him from the East under the mattress when he saw her coming and he always locked the fruit in his trunk after she had cleaned him out a dozen times as though a flock of seventeen-year locusts had swarmed down upon him . One night about two or three in the morning when she could n't sleep , she called on a typhoid patient under the pretext of making a professional visit , and got the nurse to fry her some eggs . She 's as regular as a boarder at Andy P. Symes 's when meal-time rolls around . I wonder sometimes that he stands for it . '' The Dago Duke looked at him oddly , but observed merely : `` Do you ? ''