about two o'clock in
the morning
He had seen Europe summer after summer , traveling with his father and mother on the Continent . Now he wanted to see America ; and asked her if she did not also . `` She told him that she wanted to see every place that he wanted to see , and to go everywhere he wanted to go , for that he was the only friend she had in all the wide world . `` So they walked on for about three hours , and then , about two o'clock in the morning , they reached the little railway station of Skelton . They had to wait two hours for the parliamentary train , which came heavily puffing in about five o'clock on that November morning . `` Young Whyte took second class tickets , and led his closely veiled companion to her seat on the train . And they moved off .