two in the morning
The opium-smoker understood these poetic flights ; he had the key of the palace where those two sensuous imaginations were wandering . The doctor , too , tried to understand , and he understood , for he was one of the Pleiades of genius belonging to the Paris school of medicine , from which a true physician comes out as much a metaphysician as an accomplished analyst . `` Do you understand them ? '' said Emilio to Vendramin as they left the cafe at two in the morning . `` Yes , my dear boy , '' said Vendramin , taking Emilio home with him . `` Those two men are of the legion of unearthly spirits to whom it is given here below to escape from the wrappings of the flesh , who can fly on the shoulders of the queen of witchcraft up to the blue empyrean where the sublime marvels are wrought of the intellectual life ; they , by the power of art , can soar whither your immense love carries you , whither opium transports me . Then none can understand them but those who are like them .