about two o'clock in the morning
For the rest , I do not think that you will kill yourself , and so I think I shall not alter my fixed plan . '' He left her , and Melicent prayed no more . To what end , she reflected , need she pray , when there was no hope for Perion ? _ How Melicent Conquered _ Into Melicent 's bedroom , about two o'clock in the morning , came Ahasuerus the Jew . She sat erect in bed and saw him cowering over a lamp which his long glistening fingers shielded , so that the lean face of the man floated upon a little golden pool in the darkness . She marvelled that this detestable countenance had not aged at all since her first sight of it . He smoothly said : `` Now let us talk .