three o'clock in
the morning
We are in Lent now , you know . Does this seem to you a Lenten performance ? '' `` Why , yes , to a degree . Anything that keeps you up till three o'clock in the morning has some penitential quality . '' `` You give me a new view , Mr. Mavick . I confess that I did not expect to assist at what New Englanders call an ` evening meeting . ' I thought Eros was the deity of the dance . ''