three o’clock in the
morning
A man does not dig his own apartment . He expects to find it the way he left it . He digs in the mailbox on his way towards it , and he may dig in his refrigerator to see whether he should stop for beer or whatever else , because these things save steps . But nobody really expects to find trouble in his own home , especially when he is coming in at three o'clock in the morning with a good looking woman . They were smart enough to come with nothing deadly in their hands . So I had no warning until they stepped out from either side of my front door and lifted me into my living room by the elbows . They hurled me into an easy chair with a crash .