three o'clock in the morning
But Aggie sniffed . `` Not at all , Tish Carberry , '' she observed . `` I am the wounded soldier , and I do n't stir a foot . '' In the end , however , we all went to work to dig the car out of the hole , and at three o'clock in the morning Tish climbed in and started the engine . It climbed out slowly , but as Tish observed it gave an excellent account of itself . `` And I must say , '' she said , `` I believe we have all shown that we can meet emergency in the proper spirit . As for the hole , that driveling idiot who dug it can fill it up tomorrow morning and no one be the wiser . ''