nine o’clock
`` In journalism , '' said Lousteau , `` everything that is probable is true . That is an axiom . '' `` Criminal procedure is based on the same rule , '' said Vernou . `` Very well , we meet here at nine o'clock , '' and with that they rose , and the sitting broke up with the most affecting demonstrations of intimacy and good-will . `` What have you done to Finot , Lucien , that he should make a special arrangement with you ? You are the only one that he has bound to himself , '' said Etienne Lousteau , as they came downstairs . `` I ?