one
o'clock in the morning
On all sides tools were lying about , and blouses hanging here and there ready for the morrow . Risler never walked through the shops without a feeling of pleasure . Suddenly he spied a light in Planus 's office , at the end of that long line of deserted rooms . The old cashier was still at work , at one o'clock in the morning ! That was really most extraordinary . Risler 's first impulse was to retrace his steps . In fact , since his unaccountable falling-out with Sigismond , since the cashier had adopted that attitude of cold silence toward him , he had avoided meeting him .