four o'clock
You know very well that you earnestly hope Gordon will escape the tender mercies of silly Maud and the machinations of her most amiable mamma ; if you do n't , I do . Understand that you are not to visit Susan Montgomery 's sins on Gordon 's head . I shall come home early , and make you go to bed at nine o'clock , to punish you for your obstinacy . By the by , Edna , Hagar tells me that you frequently sit up till three or four o'clock , poring over those heathenish documents in my son 's cabinet . This is absurd , and will ruin your health ; and beside , I doubt if what you learn is worth your trouble . You must not sit up longer than ten o'clock . Give me my furs . ''