five o'clock in the morning
No matter how cool I keep , I never win . '' `` How is it , Herman , that you never touch a card ? '' remarked one of the men , addressing a young officer of the Engineering Corps . `` Here you are with the rest of us at five o'clock in the morning , and you have neither played nor bet all night . '' `` Play interests me greatly , '' replied the person addressed , `` but I hardly care to sacrifice the necessaries of life for uncertain superfluities . '' `` Herman is a German , therefore economical ; that explains it , '' said Tomsky . `` But the person I ca n't quite understand is my grandmother , the Countess Anna Fedorovna . ''