one o’clock in the morning
What a ridiculous situation ! How the Penhallows would laugh over it ! As for Romney , he , too , was angry with the trick impish chance had played him . He liked being the butt of an awkward situation as little as most men ; and certainly to be obliged to walk home over moonlit fields at one o'clock in the morning with the woman he had loved and never spoken to for fifteen years was the irony of fate with a vengeance . Would she think he had schemed for it ? And how the deuce did she come to be walking home from the wedding at all ? By the time they had crossed the field and reached the wild cherry lane beyond it , Lucinda 's anger was mastered by her saving sense of humour .