three o'clock in the morning
You have made it up to me a hundredfold by all you have done to-night . But the bother of it is that there 's still so much to do , and to hit upon , and so precious little time for thought as well as action . '' I took out my watch and showed it to Raffles without a word . It was three o'clock in the morning , and the latter end of March . In little more than an hour there would be dim daylight in the streets . Raffles roused himself from a reverie with sudden decision . `` There 's only one thing for it , Bunny , '' said he .