one o'clock
` I will be firm -- it is my duty to clear this matter up , if I can -- we must do as we would be done by . ' It was still early in the day . Larcom received him gravely in the hall . Captain Lake was at home , as usual , up to one o'clock in the library -- the most diligent administrator that Brandon had perhaps ever known . ` Well , Larkin -- letters , letters perpetually , you see . Quite well , I hope ? Wo n't you sit down -- no bad news ?