about eight o'clock at night
`` Nor have you told me how you propose to go to work to raise this money in the first instance . '' `` If you like to light another Sullivan , '' said Raffles , `` and mix yourself another very small and final one , I can tell you now , Bunny . '' And tell me he did . `` Our Mr. Shylock '' I have often wondered in what pause or phase of our conversation Raffles hit upon the plan which we duly carried out ; for we had been talking incessantly , since his arrival about eight o'clock at night , until two in the morning . Yet that which we discussed between two and three was what we actually did between nine and ten , with the single exception necessitated by an altogether unforeseen development , of which the less said the better until the proper time . The foresight and imagination of a Raffles are obviously apt to outstrip his spoken words ; but even in the course of speech his ideas would crystallise , quite palpably to the listener , and the sentence that began by throwing out a shadowy idea would culminate in a definite project , as the image comes into focus under the lens , and with as much detail into the bargain . Suffice it that after a long night of it at the Albany , and but a bath and a cup of tea at my own flat , I found Raffles waiting for me in Piccadilly , and down we went together to the jaws of Jermyn Street .