Two in the
morning
`` Never . Isaac himself has the one perpetual thought about her , that she is alive and looking for him . I believe he would n't let himself drop off to sleep toward two in the morning for a king 's ransom . Two in the morning , he says , is the time she will find him , one of these days . Two in the morning is the time all the year round when he likes to be most certain that he has got that clasp-knife safe about him . He does not mind being alone as long as he is awake , except on the night before his birthday , when he firmly believes himself to be in peril of his life . The birthday has only come round once since he has been here , and then he sat up along with the night-porter .