two o'clock in the morning
Oh , there she is ! Pardon me , dear sir , -- you see my attraction . '' Lucy , indeed , who never forgot any one -LRB- except herself occasionally -RRB- , sought her father 's retreat as often as she was able ; but her engagements were so incessant that she no sooner lost one partner than she was claimed and carried off by another . However , the squire bore his solitude with tolerable cheerfulness , and always declared that `` he was very well amused ; although balls and concerts were necessarily a little dull to one who came from a fine old place like Warlock Manor-house , and it was not the same thing that pleased young ladies -LRB- for , to them , that fiddling and giggling till two o'clock in the morning might be a very pretty way of killing time -RRB- and their papas ! '' What considerably added to Lucy 's celebrity was the marked notice and admiration of a man so high in rank and ton as Lord Mauleverer . That personage , who still retained much of a youthful mind and temper , and who was in his nature more careless than haughty , preserved little or no state in his intercourse with the social revellers at Bath . He cared not whither he went , so that he was in the train of the young beauty ; and the most fastidious nobleman of the English court was seen in every second and third rate set of a great watering-place , -- the attendant , the flirt , and often the ridicule of the daughter of an obscure and almost insignificant country squire .