“Do you know, gentlemen,” he said, “it is half-past two in the morning, and if we are going to shoot the big wood to-morrow we ought to leave here at nine-thirty sharp.” “Oh, if you shoot for a hundred years you will never beat the record of those three woodcocks,” I said. “Or of those three elephants,” added Sir Henry. And then we all went to bed, and I dreamed that I had married Maiwa, and was much afraid of that attractive but determined lady.