four o'clock in the morning
As a last resort , he might find lodging among the trunks ! And then , too , there was something irritating in the suspicion that she had laughed as if it were a huge joke -- perhaps , even now , she was doubled up in her narrow couch , stifling the giggle that would not be suppressed . When the _ garde _ came back with the lugubrious information that nothing , positively nothing , was to be had , it is painful to record that Brock swore in a manner which won the deepest respect of the trainman . `` At four o'clock in the morning , M'sieur , an old gentleman and his wife will get out at Strassburg , their destination . They are in this carriage and you may take their compartment , if M'sieur will not object to sleeping in a room just vacated by two mourners who to-day buried a beloved son in Paris . They have kept all of the flowers in their -- '' `` Four o'clock ! Good Lord , what am I to do till then ? ''