two o'clock
But heaven at the same time mercifully veiled that figure of abasement : and I will lift but a corner of the sheet . Wind in hidden gullies , and the talk of lapsing waters on the hillside , filled all the spaces of the night . The high-road lay at my feet , fifty yards or so below my boulder . Soon after two o'clock -LRB- as I made it -RRB- lamps appeared in the direction of Swanston , and drew nearer ; and two hackney coaches passed me at a jog-trot , towards the opaline haze into which the weather had subdued the lights of Edinburgh . I heard one of the drivers curse as he went by , and inferred that my open-handed cousin had shirked the weather and gone comfortably from the Assembly Rooms to Dumbreck 's Hotel and bed , leaving the chase to his mercenaries . After this you are to believe that I dozed and woke by snatches . I watched the moon descend in her foggy circle ; but I saw also the mulberry face and minatory forefinger of Mr. Romaine , and caught myself explaining to him and Mr. Robbie that their joint proposal to mortgage my inheritance for a flying broomstick took no account of the working-model of the whole Rock and Castle of Edinburgh , which I dragged about by an ankle chain .