Two o’clock
There was a bleak wind abroad , and the smell of recent rain was in the air . The distant church-clocks chimed the quarter as he walked rapidly beyond the last houses in the suburb . He asked the first policeman he met what hour that was of which the quarter past had just struck . The man referred sleepily to his watch , and answered , `` Two o'clock . '' Two in the morning . What day of the month was this day that had just begun ? He reckoned it up from the date of his mother 's funeral .