three o'clock
And , as he neared the English coast , the thought that though he was coming to Farnborough he could not come home , grew bitterer and bitterer , and then that he should find his enemy and his insulter in the very house sacred by the shadows of the beloved and dead !! Finding in Nathan a youth of no common fidelity and shrewdness , Isaac confided in him ; and Nathan , proud beyond description of the confidence bestowed on him by one so honored in his tribe , enlisted in his cause with all the ardor of youth tempered by Jewish address . Often they sat together on the deck , and the young Jewish brain and the old Jewish brain mingled and digested a course of conduct to meet every imaginable contingency ; for the facts they at present possessed were only general and vague . The first result of all this was that these two crept into the town of Farnborough at three o'clock one morning ; that Isaac took out a key and unlocked the house that stood next to Meadows ' on the left hand ; that Isaac took secret possession of the first floor , and Nathan open but not ostentatious possession of the ground-floor , with a tale skillfully concocted to excite no suspicion whatever that Isaac was in any way connected with his presence in the town . Nathan , it is to be observed , had never been in Farnborough before . The next morning they worked . Nathan went out , locking the door after him , to execute two commissions .