about two o’clock in the morning
We feed him once a day , and not too much then , so that he is always as keen as mustard . Toller lets him loose every night , and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon . For goodness ' sake do n't you ever on any pretext set your foot over the threshold at night , for it 's as much as your life is worth . ' `` The warning was no idle one , for two nights later I happened to look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning . It was a beautiful moonlight night , and the lawn in front of the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day . I was standing , rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene , when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches . As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was .