one o'clock in the morning
There are lots of small states , in the Balkans , you know , which could be turned inside out and upside down by a man with the amount of money you have . '' `` There 's something in that notion , '' said Conroy . `` Get a map , will you ? '' Bob Power did not want to go wandering round the house at half-past one o'clock in the morning looking for a map of the Balkan States . It seemed to him that the idea -- the financing of a revolution was of course a joke -- might be worked out with reference to some country nearer at hand , the geographical conditions of which would be sufficiently well known without the aid of a map . `` Why not try Ireland ? '' he said .