about eleven o'clock
And what a double explosion of joy there would have been when Kinko jumped through the panel to fall into the arms of the fair Roumanian ! But no ! When the box arrives it will be empty -- empty as a heart from which all the blood has escaped . I leave the Hotel of _ Ten Thousand Dreams _ about eleven o'clock , I call one of those Chinese carriages , which look like palanquins on wheels , I give the address of Mademoiselle Klork , and I am on the way . You know , that among the eighteen provinces of China Petchili occupies the most northerly position . Formed of nine departments , it has for its capital Pekin , otherwise known as Chim-Kin-Fo , an appellation which means a `` town of the first order , obedient to Heaven . '' I do not know if this town is really obedient to Heaven , but it is obedient to the laws of rectilineal geometry .