three o'clock
in the morning
`` No , no , '' he protested . `` Unless you 're there the place wo n't be itself to me . '' We all laughed -- Struboff not in appreciation , but with a nervous desire to make himself agreeable -- and I rose from my seat . It was three o'clock in the morning . Struboff yawned mightily as he drank a final glass and patted his stomach . I think that we were all happier than when we sat down . `` And after the occasion , whither ? ''