four in the morning
`` Would you perhaps play a little bridge with us , Miss Jessop ? '' says he , trying to keep calm . `` We think we 'd better have some one with us . '' So there we sat till four in the morning , playing three-handed bridge , and if anybody knows of a funnier wedding-night , I 'd like to hear of it ! I suppose anybody would have thought us all crazy if they could have seen us , the next night , sitting , all three of us , by the bed of that queer old man that lived in old Greenwich Village . -LRB- My patient let me off , for I told her it was a case of a young bride and groom , and she was delighted to oblige the Eltons . She told me she should call on them after that !