about one in
the morning
When dinner was announced at last , I began to fear it would never end . The menu covered _ both sides _ of the card . The Duchess ate little , and `` hardly anything was drunk . '' At last the ladies left us , about one in the morning . I saw my chance , and began judiciously to `` draw '' the chaplain . It appeared that the Duchess did not always dine at half-past eleven . The feast was a movable one , from eight o'clock onwards .