three in the morning
`` Erle will excuse us . '' `` Oh , blazes ! '' said Laurence , `` what is it you 're after ? I ai n't good at private conferences at three in the morning . We 're all out , and is n't that enough for ye ? '' `` I have been dreadfully annoyed to-night , '' said Phineas , `` and I wished to speak to you about it . '' `` Bedad , Finn , my boy , and there are a good many of us are annoyed ; -- eh , Barrington ? ''