About one o'clock in the morning
Phrases and paragraphs began to shape themselves in his mind as he sat with one arm on his steering-wheel . Suddenly he roused himself , turned over the map in the map-case beside him , and tried to find his position ... . So far as he could judge he had strayed right into Suffolk ... . About one o'clock in the morning he found himself in Newmarket . Newmarket too was a moonlit emptiness , but as he hesitated at the cross-roads he became aware of a policeman standing quite stiff and still at the corner by the church . `` Matching 's Easy ? '' he cried .