two in the morning
`` But I 'll outwit you . '' By a subterfuge in which a sympathetic doctor was the main factor , he had himself permanently excused from chapel . Then he said to Scarborough : `` You get up too late , old man . My grandfather used to say that only a drone lies abed after two in the morning , wasting the best part of the day . You ought to turn in , say , at half-past nine and rise in time to get your hardest work out of the way before the college day begins . '' `` That sounds reasonable , '' replied Scarborough , after a moment 's consideration . `` I 'll try it . ''