two o'clock
-LRB- It was not correct , it may be well to state , although that has nothing to do with the case at this moment . -RRB- If he had but known that she contemplated paying ten thousand crowns for his surreptitious release , making herself criminally liable , and that he was expected to catch a night train across the border , it is only just to his manhood to say that he should have balked , even though the act were to cost him years of prison servitude -- which , of course , was unlikely in the face of the explanation that would be made in proper time by the real Medcroft . It thus may be seen that Brock not only had been vilely imprisoned twice in the same night , but that he was very much in the dark , notwithstanding his attempt to make light of the situation . It occurred to him , at two o'clock , that pacing the floor in the agony of suspense was a very useless occupation . He would go to bed . Morning would bring relief and surcease to his troubled mind . Constance was doubtless sound asleep in her room .