five o’clock in the morning
`` Can I go on living like this , in feverish inaction ? '' And she whispered , `` I am no longer counting the days , the thirty-eight or forty days that remain to us : I am counting the hours . '' Lupin felt that her resolution was too strong for him to try to combat it . They both started at five o'clock in the morning , by motor-car . The Growler went with them . So as not to arouse suspicion , Lupin chose a large town as his headquarters . At Amiens , where he installed Clarisse , he was only eighteen miles from Montmaur .