`` right , '' i said , his hands falling when i pulled the dice to my lips but refused to touch them . he was fifty-three when i was born . `` it will be tomorrow at four o'clock in the morning , '' said the grey man . i am as determined as you are to prevent your failure . 'seems to me ' , he said , 'that you could do with some of that around here . ' i had all but forgotten to be furious by this time . what makes him so crazy , then ? 