three in the morning
If it is it will save a lot of trouble to both sides . '' The Tsar did not reply . He was too busy thinking , and so was Lord Kitchener . That night there were divided counsels in the headquarters of the Allies at Aldershot , and the Kaiser and his colleagues went to bed between two and three in the morning without having come to anything like a definite decision . As a matter of fact , within the last few hours things had become a little too complicated to be decided upon in anything like a hurry . While the potentates of the Alliance were almost quarrelling as to what was to be done , the _ Auriole _ paid a literally flying visit to the British positions , and then the hospitals . At Caversham , Lennard found Norah Castellan taking her turn of night duty by the bedside of Lord Westerham , who had , after all , got through his desperate ride with a couple of bullets through his right ribs , and a broken left arm ; but he had got his despatches in all the same , though nearly two hours late -- for which he apologised before he fainted .