eight o'clock before
He made , however , a hasty toilet in his best , only to colour at himself when finished . Was there ever such a fool as he ? His act contained the germ of an insult : and he rapidly changed back to his workaday wear . All this took time , and it was eight o'clock before he rang the door-bell in the BRUDERSTRASSE . Now , the landlady did not mistake him for a possible thief . But she looked at him in an unfriendly way , and said grumblingly that Fraulein had been expecting him for an hour or more . Then she pointed to the door of the room , and left him to make his way in alone .