three o’clock
in the morning
The first-floor lodgers sent up a servant with a message . Would Schmucke please stop the racket overhead . Madame , Monsieur , and Mademoiselle Chapoulot had been wakened , and could not sleep for the noise ; they called his attention to the fact that the day was quite long enough for rehearsals of theatrical music , and added that people ought not to `` strum '' all night in a house in the Marais . -- It was then three o'clock in the morning . At half-past three , La Cibot appeared , just as Pons had predicted . He might have actually heard the conference between Fraisier and the portress : `` Did I not guess exactly how it would be ? '' his eyes seemed to say as he glanced at Schmucke , and , turning a little , he seemed to be fast asleep .