Four o'clock
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 ? '' groaned Brock , glaring with unmanly hatred at the door of the Medcroft compartment . `` Perhaps Madame may be willing to take the upper -- '' ventured the guard timorously , but Brock checked him with a peremptory gesture .