two o’clock
Fearful , despairing cries rose shrilly from the street , sounds which he heard every night , indeed , under his window after two o'clock . They woke him up now . `` Ah ! the drunken men are coming out of the taverns , '' he thought , `` it 's past two o'clock , '' and at once he leaped up , as though someone had pulled him from the sofa . `` What ! Past two o'clock ! '' He sat down on the sofa -- and instantly recollected everything !