nearly two o'clock in the morning
Let us go and post this letter , and then I want to go to Tattersalls . Will you dine with me at the club at six ? and afterwards we will keep our appointment with Dancy and Lord Dupe ; we may make something of the latter , if we ca n't of the former . ' It was nearly two o'clock in the morning when Howel reached his home . His little girl was ill in the measles , and Netta , feeling anxious about her , had been sitting up with her . When Howel entered the bedroom in which the mother and child were , he began to talk in a loud voice . ` Why on earth do n't you go to bed , Netta ? '