three in the morning before
I suppose it was my own fault , what followed . At any rate , I was in such a hurry to get the wedding over , and was so afraid of her relatives finding me there , that I must have received her advances with a certain amount of absence of mind . I was out of that room and down the ladder in under half a minute . She kept me waiting at the foot an unconscionable time -- it was certainly three in the morning before we knocked up that minister . And I think that that wait was the only sign Florence ever showed of having a conscience as far as I was concerned , unless her lying for some moments in my arms was also a sign of conscience . I fancy that , if I had shown warmth then , she would have acted the proper wife to me , or would have put me back again . But , because I acted like a Philadelphia gentleman , she made me , I suppose , go through with the part of a male nurse .