one o'clock
`` I think , '' said Anton , `` that our aim should rather be to behave in a manner worthy of ourselves . You went on like a frivolous nobleman who meant to ask a loan from old Ehrenthal on the morrow . '' `` I choose to be frivolous , '' cried Fink ; `` and perhaps I may want a loan from the Ehrenthal house . And now have done with your preachments -- it is past one o'clock . '' A few days later , Anton remembered , at the close of the office , that he had promised to send on a book to the young student . As Fink , who had gone out an hour before , had carried off his paletot , which indeed often happened , Anton wrapped himself in Fink 's burnoose , which chanced to lie in his room , and hurried off to Ehrenthal 's house . As he reached the door , he was not a little amazed to see it noiselessly open , and a shawled and veiled figure come out .