about five o'clock
And that this had so excited him , in his feverish state , that it had driven him almost mad , and he had waited until all the household , including the nurse , were asleep , and , with superhuman cunning , crept from his bed and dressed himself , and had taken the money which his Chérisette had given him for an emergency that day in the Park , and which he had always kept hidden in his desk ; and he had then stolen out and gone to the station -- all in the night , alone , the poor , poor lamb ! -- and there he had waited until the Weymouth night mail had come through , and had bought a ticket , and got in , and come to London to find his father -- with the broken violin wrapped in its green baize cover . And all the while coughing -- coughing enough to kill him ! And he had arrived with just enough money to pay a cab , and had come at about five o'clock and could hardly wake the house to be let in ; and he , Mimo , had heard the noise and come down , and there found the little angel , and brought him in , and warmed him in his bed . And he had waited to boil him some hot milk before he could come to the public telephone near , to call her up . Oh ! but he was very ill -- very , very ill -- and could she come at once -- but oh !