two in the morning
-LRB- `` Now , how in the world , '' wondered the Commandant , `` does she know anything of Miss Gabriel ? '' -RRB- `` Very well ; we go together to Alma Cottage -- she still lives at Alma Cottage ? -- and knock . The hour is two in the morning , or thereabouts . Miss Gabriel , overcoming her first fear of robbery or murder , will parley with us from her bedroom window . To her you introduce me , by the light of your lantern ; a strange female in an evening frock ; a female grossly overladen with jewels -LRB- that , I think , would be Miss Gabriel 's way of putting it -RRB- , but without a portmanteau . '' `` We might try the Popes , next door , '' suggested the Commandant flinching .