eight o’clock at night
`` I know that you may well ask me by what right I meddle in your affairs and presume to question you . Hear me , monsieur ; you are young and I am old ; I am older than my years , and they are sixty-seven ; people take me for eighty . Age and misfortunes justify many things ; but I will not make a plea of my whitened head ; I wish to speak of yourself . Do you know that this quarter in which you propose to live is deserted by eight o'clock at night , and the roads are full of dangers , the least of which is robbery ? Have you noticed those wide spaces not yet built upon , these fields , these gardens ? You may tell me that I live here ; but , monsieur , I never go out after six o'clock . You may also remind me of the two young men on the second floor , above the apartment you are going to take .