four in the morning
`` But its return ? '' asked Sir Chichester . `` Simpler still . Your gates were left open last night , and we returned from Harrel at four in the morning . Stella 's chauffeur hands in his letter , comes back by the way he went and is home here at Rackham an hour and a half before we thought of saying good-bye to Mrs. Willoughby . That is the way it happened . That is the way it must have happened , '' Hillyard concluded energetically .