about four o’clock
-- that night when we first discussed this fatal contract ; for to-day we must save the last fragments of our fortune , and I must win for you a thing to which I am superstitiously attached . '' `` What is it ? '' `` The ` Discreto . ''' Paul arrived about four o'clock . Though he endeavored to meet his mother-in-law with a gracious look upon his face , Madame Evangelista saw traces of the clouds which the counsels of the night and the reflections of the morning had brought there . `` Mathias has told him ! '' she thought , resolving to defeat the old notary 's action .