ten o'clock
`` Yes , my father ; and it is now two o'clock . '' `` Let us pass into your cabinet -- give me something to write with . '' `` Here , my father . '' The count seated himself before the desk of his son , and wrote with a firm hand : `` I engage to pay this night , at ten o'clock , the 25,000 francs which are owed by my son . `` COUNT DE SAINT REMY . '' `` Your creditor insists upon having the money ; notwithstanding his threats , this engagement of mine will make him consent to a new delay ; he can go to Mr. Dupont , banker , in the Rue de Richelieu , No. 7 , who will inform him of the value of this note . '' `` Oh , father !