seven o'clock
Then he went to the garden with his shears ; ruthlessly he cut his finest roses and the first branches of lilac in flower . Then he went up to his room again , shaved feverishly , and cut himself more than once . He dressed carefully and set out for the station . It was seven o'clock . Salome had not succeeded in making him take so much as a drop of milk , for he declared that Christophe would not have had breakfast when he arrived and that they would have breakfast together when they came from the station . He was at the station three-quarters of an hour too soon . He waited and waited for Christophe and finally missed him .