one in the morning
`` Well ? '' said Carolus . `` Well , '' continued Marcel , showing his feet , `` your boots , infinitely too small for me , indicate a radical difference of temper and character ; in other respects , your little party has been charming . '' At one in the morning the guests took leave , and zig-zagged homeward . Barbemuche felt very ill , and made incoherent harangues to his pupil , who , for his part , was dreaming of Mademoiselle Mimi 's blue eyes . This took place some time after the union of the poet Rodolphe and Mademoiselle Mimi . For a week the whole of the Bohemian brotherhood were grievously perturbed by the disappearance of Rodolphe , who had suddenly become invisible .