nearly one o'clock
Well , I want to reward you for what you did for me . '' `` I do n't ask any reward . '' `` Nevertheless , you must accept something , '' answered the fashionably dressed young man . Nat and his newly-found friend sat in the Niagara Falls Park until nearly one o'clock , talking their affairs over . Then Paul Hampton asked the boy to go with him for dinner . `` I want to prove to you that I am not as crazy as I seemed , '' said the young man . `` That was a sudden fit , that 's all . ''