nearly four o'clock
This discreditable arrangement was all concluded before my return , and the execution of it only postponed till the next morning , after Lescaut should have apprised G -- M -- . `` I found him , on my return , waiting for me at my house ; but Manon had retired to her own apartment , and she had desired the footman to tell me that , having need of repose , she hoped she should not be disturbed that night . Lescaut left me , after offering me a few crowns which I accepted . `` It was nearly four o'clock when I retired to bed ; and having revolved in my mind various schemes for retrieving my fortunes , I fell asleep so late that I did not awake till between eleven and twelve o'clock . I rose at once to enquire after Manon 's health ; they told me that she had gone out an hour before with her brother , who had come for her in a hired carriage . Although there appeared something mysterious in such a proceeding , I endeavoured to check my rising suspicions . I allowed some hours to pass , during which I amused myself with reading .