five o'clock
Let us enter . '' `` I wonder what Belmont is doing out at this unseasonable hour , '' muttered the tall man in the folds of his cloak . And he walked on , while the door of the mansion closed with a thud upon the two sleighmen . * * * * * It was five o'clock on the morning of the 10th November , 1775 . The first faint light of the morning was touching the tops of the far mountains . The air was frosty , with indications of snow . Two men stood at an angle of the ramparts , on the highest point of the citadel of Quebec .