ten o'clock
Had his brother lived in the house , he would have gone and killed him with the stab of a knife . When day returned he tried to reason things out . It was he who ought to die , and he determined to throw himself out of the window when an omnibus was passing . Nevertheless , he went out toward ten o'clock and traversed Paris , wandered up and down on the bridges and at the last moment felt an unconquerable desire to see Nana once more . With one word , perhaps , she would save him . And three o'clock was striking when he entered the house in the Avenue de Villiers . Toward noon a frightful piece of news had simply crushed Mme Hugon .