At what hours would you suggest ?" Blandano considered his own comfort--as the other expected he would--and answered, "Early and late, say an hour before midnight and an hour before dawn".
"Then let be it as you suggest.

But see"-- with returning asperity--"that those rounds go, and at their hours.

Let there be no remissness.

I will make a note," he continued, "of the hours fixed.

An hour before midnight and an hour before dawn".
He extended his arm and drew the ink-horn towards him.