two o'clock in the morning
He could get there in about a couple of hours . And then ? To search a sleeping town for Miss Fountain -- would that mend matters ? A carriage arriving at two o'clock in the morning -- the inn awakened -- no lady there , perhaps -- for what was to prevent her having found decent shelter in some quite other quarter ? Was he to make a house-to-house visitation at that hour ? How wise ! How quenching to the gossip that must in any case get abroad !