one o'clock
It was two lines from Sylvester , -- `` All right . Baby goes down on night-boat . Be a father to him . S. '' It was due , then , at one o'clock that night . For a moment I was staggered at my own precipitation . I had as yet made no preparations , had said nothing to my landlady about her new guest . I expected to arrange every thing in time ; and now , through Sylvester 's indecent haste , that time had been shortened twelve hours .