nearly two o'clock
She talked vaguely and indiscriminately to prevent his talking pertinently . Phillotson was sitting up late , as was often his custom , trying to get together the materials for his long-neglected hobby of Roman antiquities . For the first time since reviving the subject he felt a return of his old interest in it . He forgot time and place , and when he remembered himself and ascended to rest it was nearly two o'clock . His preoccupation was such that , though he now slept on the other side of the house , he mechanically went to the room that he and his wife had occupied when he first became a tenant of Old-Grove Place , which since his differences with Sue had been hers exclusively . He entered , and unconsciously began to undress . There was a cry from the bed , and a quick movement .