two o'clock in the morning
I stepped in front of the prisoner and addressed him . '' ` Listen to me , Piragoff . ' At the sound of his name he stopped bellowing and stared at me , and I continued , ` Twenty years ago a burglar came to this house . He was in the dining-room at two o'clock in the morning preparing to steal the plate . A lady came into the room and disturbed him . He tried to prevent her from ringing the bell . But she rang it ; and he shot her dead .