two o'clock
`` I suppose -- '' she began ; but old Marsden , who sat on the other side of the fire , and who was no respecter of persons , broke in : `` I 've heerd a deal about how you all felt , and what you all thought ; but what I 'd like to know is what really happened . The men at the inn wont talk without their captain gives them leave ; and Dr. Cricket has got him and his sister shut up in their rooms , to git over the shawk . Now perhaps the Doctor can tell us how it wuz thet thet air ship went aground on a sandy coast , in a ca 'm night like the last . '' `` Captain Costello says it was the light in the tavern-window which he mistook for the Bug Light off the point ; but how could that have been , when it was past two o'clock , and I 'll answer for it that no one at Nepaug was ever found awake after nine ? '' Dr. Cricket questioned with the inflection of a man who neither expects nor desires an answer . Indeed , he had only paused for breath , when Flint , from his easy chair on the other side of the fireplace , broke in : -- `` So I am to blame for the whole thing . '' `` You ! ''