two in the morning
`` You are a perfect heathen . There 's nothing to be afraid of , except that Mr. Morgeson may walk into a ditch ; will a knife keep us out of that ? '' `` Knife is good -- it kills , '' he said , showing his white , vegetable-ivory teeth . Verry and I sat up till they returned , at two in the morning . Abram had died about midnight , distressed to the last with worldly cares . `` He asked , '' said father , `` if I remembered his poor boy , whose chest never came home , and wished to hear some one read a hymn ; Temperance broke down when I read it , while Fanny cried hysterically . '' `` I was freezing cold , '' she answered haughtily .