four o'clock in the morning
`` And so you knew Archibald Florance ? '' `` You bet I did . He never had any friends -- never -- but I knew him as well as anybody could . Why , in San Francisco , after the show , I 've walked with him back to his hotel , and he 's walked with me back to mine , and so on and so on till three or four o'clock in the morning . You see , we could n't stop until it happened that he finished a cigar at the exact moment when we got to his hotel door . If the cigar was n't finished , then he must needs stroll back a bit , and before I knew where I was he 'd be lighting a fresh one . He smoked the finest cigars in America .