about
one in the morning
cried I , jumping on to the chest of drawers with a knife in my hand , to which a corkscrew was attached . I made a round hole at the top of the partition , about as big as a five-sou piece . I had forgotten that there would be no light in the room , and on putting my eye to the hole , I saw only darkness . At about one in the morning , when we had finished our books and were about to undress , we heard a noise in our neighbor 's room . He got up , struck a match , and lighted his dip . I got on to the drawers again , and I then saw Marcas seated at his table and copying law-papers . His room was about half the size of ours ; the bed stood in a recess by the door , for the passage ended there , and its breadth was added to his garret ; but the ground on which the house was built was evidently irregular , for the party-wall formed an obtuse angle , and the room was not square .