two in the morning
As a necessary consequence -- what will he do ? He will anticipate the appearance of the Woman with the Knife , at two in the morning of the twenty-ninth of February , instead of the first of March . Let him suffer all his superstitious terrors on the wrong day . Leave him , on the day that is really his birthday , to pass a perfectly quiet night , and to be as sound asleep as other people at two in the morning . And then , when he wakes comfortably in time for his breakfast , shame him out of his delusion by telling him the truth . '' I agreed to try the experiment . Leaving the surgeon to caution Mrs. Fairbank on the subject of Leap Year , I went to the stables to see Mr. Raven .