Three o'clock in the morning
The ball did not rebound as it used to ; the resilience was petering out . But look alive , there ! Big events were toward , and he must not stop to feel of his pulse . Three o'clock in the morning . The man in the Gregor bedroom sat down on the bed , the pocket lamp dangling from his hairy fingers . Not a nook or cranny in the apartment had he overlooked . In every cupboard , drawer ; in the beds and under ; the trunks ; behind the radiators and the pictures ; the shelves and clothes in the closets .