two o'clock
`` How did it happen ? '' asked Garrick , almost as soon as we had entered the doctor 's little office . `` I had had a bad case up the road , '' replied the doctor slowly , `` and it had kept me out late . I was driving my car along at a cautious pace homeward , some time near two o'clock , when I came to a point in the road where there are hills on one side and the river on the other . As I neared the curve , a rather sharp curve , too , I remember the lights on my own car were shining on the white fence that edged the river side of the road . I was keeping carefully on my own side , which was toward the hill . `` As I was about to turn , I heard the loud purring of an engine coming in my direction , and a moment later I saw a car with glaring headlights , driven at a furious pace , coming right at me .