about two o'clock
`` I hope to goodness nothing will appear to me , '' Kelson said . `` My heart is n't strong enough to stand the shock of seeing striped figures . They should come to you , Curtis -- a few jumps would n't do you any harm -- you 're fat enough . '' Agreeing each to sleep with a light in his room , they separated , and at about two o'clock Curtis , who had been suffering of late from his liver -- the effect , so the doctor told him , of living a little too well -- and could not sleep , heard a knock at his door . To his astonishment it was Kelson -- Kelson , in his pyjamas . `` Hulloa ! '' Curtis exclaimed .