eight o'clock
About one o'clock in the morning he thought of getting up to go and tell Salome to cook a stewed carp for dinner ; for she was marvelously successful with that dish . He did not tell her ; and it was as well , no doubt . But he did get up to arrange all sorts of things in the room he meant to give Christophe ; he took a thousand precautions so that Salome should not hear him , for he was afraid of being scolded . All night long he was afraid of missing the train although Christophe could not arrive before eight o'clock . He was up very early . He first looked at the sky ; Kunz had not made a mistake ; it was glorious weather . On tiptoe Schulz went down to the cellar ; he had not been there for a long time , fearing the cold and the steep stairs ; he selected his best wines , knocked his head hard against the ceiling as he came up again , and thought he was going to choke when he reached the top of the stairs with his full basket .