two in the morning
`` Breakfast , '' answered the cool , audacious Frenchman , who always brought up this solution at the most difficult juncture . In any case , if this operation had no influence on the projectile 's course , it could at least be tried without inconvenience , and even with success from a stomachic point of view . Certainly Michel had none but good ideas . They breakfasted then at two in the morning ; the hour mattered little . Michel served his usual repast , crowned by a glorious bottle drawn from his private cellar . If ideas did not crowd on their brains , we must despair of the Chambertin of 1853 . The repast finished , observation began again .