two o'clock
in the morning
THE PUNCTILIOUSNESS OF DON SEBASTIAN Xiormonez is the most inaccessible place in Spain . Only one train arrives there in the course of the day , and that arrives at two o'clock in the morning ; only one train leaves it , and that starts an hour before sunrise . No one has ever been able to discover what happens to the railway officials during the intermediate one-and-twenty hours . A German painter I met there , who had come by the only train , and had been endeavouring for a fortnight to get up in time to go away , told me that he had frequently gone to the station in order to clear up the mystery , but had never been able to do so ; yet , from his inquiries , he was inclined to suspect -- that was as far as he would commit himself , being a cautious man -- that they spent the time in eating garlic and smoking execrable cigarettes . The guide-books tell you that Xiormonez possesses the eyebrows of Joseph of Arimathea , a cathedral of the greatest quaintness , and battlements untouched since their erection in the fourteenth century .