three in the morning
Therefore , it seemed well to add a postscript to that effect in prose . But then , how was she to receive it ? There was nothing to be hoped from the post , and Damon 's home in Sidon was three miles from the ferry . Likewise , it was now nearing three in the morning . Just time to catch the half-past three boat , run up to the theatre , a mile away , and meet the return boat . So down , down through the creaking house , carefully , as though he were a Jason picking his way among the coils of the sleeping dragon ; and soon he was shooting through the phantom streets , like Mercury on a message through Hades . At last the river came in sight , growing slate-colour in the earliest dawn .