one o'clock
_ ' '' '' ' _ C'est du Nord aujourd ` hui que nous vient la lumière _ , ' '' -LSB- 1 -RSB- said Moreau , laughing -LRB- `` It is from the North that our light comes today '' -RRB- . -LSB- Footnote 1 : A famous line of Voltaire 's . -LRB- Author . -RRB- -RSB- Though the hearing was set for one o'clock , and it was now barely twelve , Clerambault wanted to start at once , he was so afraid of being late . They had not far to go , and indeed his friends had no need to protect him against the rabble which hung about the Palais de Justice , a crowd which in any case was considerably thinned out by the morning 's news . There were only a few curs , more noisy than dangerous , who might have snapped at their heels . They had reached the corner of the Rue Vaugirard and the Rue d'Assas , when Clerambault , finding that he had forgotten an important paper , went back to look for it in his apartment ; the others stood there waiting for him .