one o'clock in the morning
But he did all these things fairly well , and his unfailing good spirits carried him safely through periods of very tiresome duty . He became , in spite of the twenty-five years ' difference of age between him and his patron , the intimate friend of Joseph Peterson Conroy . It was to Bob that Conroy confided the fact that he was tired of the life of a leader of English society . The two men were sitting together in the smoking room at one o'clock in the morning after one of Conroy 's most magnificent entertainments . `` I 'm damned well sick of all this , '' said Conroy suddenly . `` So am I , '' said Bob . Bob Power was a man of adventurous disposition .