three o’clock in the morning
`` Attention ! '' said Morgan . And both young men , on their knees , their ears alert , their eyes at the window , waited . Let us now explain to the reader the cause of this interruption of a repast which , though taken at three o'clock in the morning , was not , as we have seen , over-tranquil . The jailer 's daughter had not been mistaken ; it was indeed Roland whom she had seen in the jail speaking to the captain of the gendarmerie . Neither was Amélie wrong in her terror . Roland was really in pursuit of Morgan .