eleven o'clock
-LSB- Illustration : _ He exhibited such ferocious joy . _ Original Etching by Mercier . -RSB- `` He never would see him after the discovery in question , being fully persuaded , no doubt , that he is the son of the Pole . '' The conversation of these two personages was interrupted by a gigantic footman , elaborately powdered , although it was scarcely eleven o'clock . `` M. Boyer , M. le Vicomte has rung his bell twice , '' said the giant . Boyer appeared immensely distressed at having apparently been inattentive to his duty , rose hastily , and followed the footman with as much haste and respect as if he had not been himself , in his proper person , the proprietor of his master 's house . It was about two hours after Boyer had left Edwards to go to M. de Saint-Remy , when the father of the latter knocked at the door of the house in the Rue de Chaillot .