two o'clock
Wogan spoke his thought aloud , -- `` Yet I might be any hedgerow rascal with a taste for your plate , and no particular scruples as to a life or two lying in the way of its gratification . '' The Count smiled . `` Your visit is not so unexampled as you are inclined to think . Nearly thirty years ago a young man as you are came in just such a plight as you and stood outside this window at two o'clock of a dark morning . Even so early in my life I was at my books , '' and he smiled rather sadly . `` I let him in and he talked to me for an hour of matters strange and dreamlike , and enviable to me . I have never forgotten that hour , nor to tell the truth have I ever ceased to envy the man who talked to me during it , though many years since he suffered a dreadful doom and vanished from among his fellows .