ten o'clock at
night
M. and Mme. Renault , who had seen her grow up ; Doctor Martout who had held the sinecure of physician to her ; the architect , the notary , in a word , everybody present was plunged into a state of absolute stupefaction . Clementine was no sensitive plant . She was not even a romantic school girl . Her youth had not been nourished by Anne Radcliffe , she did not trouble herself about ghosts , and she would go through the house very tranquilly at ten o'clock at night without a candle . When her mother died , some months before Leon 's departure , she did not wish to have any one share with her the sad satisfaction of watching and praying in the death-chamber . `` This will teach us , '' said the aunt , `` how to stay up after ten o'clock . What !