three o'clock
Those two vigilant assailants made a rush at him . `` Very well , '' said he , yielding . `` It signifies nothing to me to what quarter I turn my face . '' Thus , at Mugby Junction , at past three o'clock of a tempestuous morning , the traveller went where the weather drove him . Not but what he could make a stand when he was so minded , for , coming to the end of the roofed shelter -LRB- it is of considerable extent at Mugby Junction -RRB- , and looking out upon the dark night , with a yet darker spirit - wing of storm beating its wild way through it , he faced about , and held his own as ruggedly in the difficult direction as he had held it in the easier one . Thus , with a steady step , the traveller went up and down , up and down , up and down , seeking nothing and finding it . A place replete with shadowy shapes , this Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty .