about two o'clock
When are you going to try on ? '' * * * * * _ An Escape _ One night , in the following June , Priam and Alice refrained from going to bed . Alice dozed for an hour or so on the sofa , and Priam read by her side in an easy-chair , and about two o'clock , just before the first beginnings of dawn , they stimulated themselves into a feverish activity beneath the parlour gas . Alice prepared tea , bread-and-butter , and eggs , passing briskly from room to room . Alice also ran upstairs , cast a few more things into a valise and a bag already partially packed , and , locking both receptacles , carried them downstairs . Meantime the whole of Priam 's energy was employed in having a bath and in shaving .