four in the morning
Reflecting thus , Zack descended cautiously to the back parlor , which was called a `` library . '' The open door showed him that no one was in the room . He went in , and in great haste scrawled the following answer to Mr. Blyth 's letter : -- `` MY DEAR BLYTH -- Thank you for the tickets . I have got into a dreadful scrape , having been found out coming home tipsy at four in the morning , which I did by stealing the family door-key . My prospects after this are so extremely unpleasant that I am going to make a bolt of it . I write these lines in a tearing hurry , for fear my father should come home before I have done -- he having gone to Yollop 's to set the parson at me again worse than ever . `` I ca n't come to you to-night , because your house would be the first place they would send to after me .