nearly two o'clock
Probably Baxter will have given up waiting as a bad job by now if he has been watching all this while . We 've given him ten nights to cool off . I expect he is in bed , dreaming pleasant dreams . It 's nearly two o'clock . I 'll wait another ten minutes and then go down . '' He picked up the cookbook . `` Lie back and make yourself comfortable , and I 'll read you to sleep first . ''