four in the morning
reproved Mr. Galloway . `` You will do a full day 's work to-day , sir , if you stop here till twelve o'clock at night . '' `` Oh , of course I expect to do that , sir , '' retorted Roland , tartly . `` Considering what 's before me , on this desk and on Jenkins 's , there 's little prospect of my getting home on this side four in the morning . They need n't sit up for me -- I can go in with the milk . I wonder who invented writing ? I wish I had the fingering of him just now ! ''