four
in the morning
`` Good-night , '' said Benoni . `` I am tired and most go to bed . '' Nino found his way out alone , but carefully noted the position of the palazzo before he went home through the deserted streets . It was four in the morning . Early in the morning after Nino 's visit to Signor Benoni , De Pretis came to my house , wringing his hands and making a great trouble and noise . I had not yet seen Nino , who was sound asleep , though I could not imagine why he did not wake . But De Pretis was in such a temper that he shook the room and everything in it , as he stamped about the brick floor .