nearly one o'clock
* * * * * ` And so ends the romantic history of `` Crinoline and Macassar '' , ' said Mrs. Woodward ; ` and I am sure , Charley , we are all very much obliged to you for the excellent moral lessons you have given us . ' ` I 'm so delighted with it , ' said Katie ; ` I do so like that Macassar . ' ` So do I , ' said Linda , yawning ; ` and the old man with the thin grey hair . ' ` Come , girls , it 's nearly one o'clock , and we 'll go to bed , ' said the mother . ` Uncle Bat has been asleep these two hours . ' And so they went off to their respective chambers . All further conversation in the drawing-room was forbidden for that night .