two o’clock
Now and then he seemed to wake up , and at such moments he noticed that it was far into the night , but it did not occur to him to get up . At last he noticed that it was beginning to get light . He was lying on his back , still dazed from his recent oblivion . Fearful , despairing cries rose shrilly from the street , sounds which he heard every night , indeed , under his window after two o'clock . They woke him up now . `` Ah ! the drunken men are coming out of the taverns , '' he thought , `` it 's past two o'clock , '' and at once he leaped up , as though someone had pulled him from the sofa .