Two o'clock
There was a bleak wind abroad , and the smell of rain was in the air . The church clocks chimed the quarter as I walked beyond the last house in the town . I asked the first policeman I met what hour that was , of which the quarter past had just struck . The man looked at his watch , and answered , `` Two o'clock . '' Two in the morning . What day of the month was this day that had just begun ? I reckoned it up from the date of my mother 's funeral .