one o'clock in the morning
`` I will go in my slippers , mother , but I will run up and change my other things . It 's lucky I have got a spare suit here . Any of our fellows who happened to be going down to-night in the train would think that I was mad , were I to go like this . '' It was one o'clock in the morning when Vincent reached Petersburg . He went straight to his quarters , as it would be no use waking General Lee at that hour . A light was burning in his room , and Dan was asleep at the table with his head on his arms . He leaped up with a cry of joy as his master entered .