four o'clock in the morning
I descended again to the café . Nobody was there except the staff of waiters . Everybody else had gone to the Bourse , I learned . ` Change open at four o'clock in the morning ! is not that extraordinary ? Certainly , but so are the events which are occurring . The spacious halls and corridors of the Exchange were brilliantly lighted all night long , and were filled with a throng of brokers and `` matadores . ''