One o'clock
I am as safe here as I should be in my father 's house . All the pitfalls and snares are to be seen by any one who wishes to see them . It is the sleeping spider that catches the fly , not your bold , brazen hunter , clumsily alert . '' I did not want to be preaching constantly to Frances , so we talked on other subjects till we reached my uncle 's house , where I remained , singing , dancing , and very merry with Frances , Sarah , and Churchill , till we heard the night watch call , `` One o'clock and raining ! '' Churchill and I slept at Sir Richard 's and returned to Whitehall the next morning . During the following week I went to see Betty frequently under the pretence of wishing to see Hamilton , but she told me -LRB- honestly , I believed -RRB- that he had left the Old Swan and that she did not know where he was . So I repeated my visits every day , each visit growing longer and I growing fonder .