about eight to one in the morning
Johnson said this morning that I should have to get the last figure out before the twentieth of the month . Good Lord ! Well , have at it , and if human brain and nerve can stand the strain , I 'll win out at the other side . It means office-work from ten to five , and then a second sitting from about eight to one in the morning . There 's drama in an accountant 's life . When I find myself in the still early hours , while all the world sleeps , hunting through column after column for those missing figures which will turn a respected alderman into a felon , I understand that it is not such a prosaic profession after all . On Monday I came on the first trace of defalcation .