two in the morning
From far off he could hear a childish treble singing : `` Waltz me around again , Willie , around , around , around . '' He recovered the axe in the midst of the Milky Way of checks , starched shirts , and manuscripts , and prepared , when he came down , to kill Joe . But he did not come down . Instead , at two in the morning , Maria , having heard his groans through the thin partition , came into his room , to put hot flat-irons against his body and damp cloths upon his aching eyes . Martin Eden did not go out to hunt for a job in the morning . It was late afternoon before he came out of his delirium and gazed with aching eyes about the room . Mary , one of the tribe of Silva , eight years old , keeping watch , raised a screech at sight of his returning consciousness .