two o'clock
What is the use of questions ? '' `` Not to justify myself , '' answered Father d'Aigrigny , `` but to place matters in their true light before his Eminence . '' `` Speak , then ; but let us have no useless speeches , '' said Rodin , drawing out his large silver watch , and looking at it . `` By two o'clock I must be at Saint-Sulpice . '' `` I will be as brief as possible , '' said Father d'Aigrigny , with repressed resentment . Then , addressing Rodin , he resumed : `` When your reverence thought fit to take my place , and to blame , very severely perhaps , the manner in which I had managed the interests confided to my care , I confess honestly that these interests were gravely compromised . '' `` Compromised ? ''