two o’clock
`` Ah ! the drunken men are coming out of the taverns , '' he thought , `` it 's past two o'clock , '' and at once he leaped up , as though someone had pulled him from the sofa . `` What ! Past two o'clock ! '' He sat down on the sofa -- and instantly recollected everything ! All at once , in one flash , he recollected everything . For the first moment he thought he was going mad .