seven o'clock
I then hired a hackney-coach , which I placed , according to our plan , at the end of the street of St. Andre-des-arcs , and went on foot to the door of the theatre . I was surprised at not seeing Marcel , who was to have been there waiting for me . I waited patiently for a full hour , standing among a crowd of lackeys , and gazing at every person that passed . At length , seven o'clock having struck , without my being able to discover anything or any person connected with our project , I procured a pit ticket , in order to ascertain if Manon and G -- M -- were in the boxes . Neither one nor the other could I find . I returned to the door , where I again stopped for a quarter of an hour , in an agony of impatience and uneasiness . No person appeared , and I went back to the coach , without knowing what to conjecture .