nine o'clock
If you and I do not take that walk , I shall take upon myself to make some others walk . '' So saying , he went away , and crossed the place Saint-Jean to the Hochons . Every one can imagine the scenes which the revelations made by Philippe to Monsieur Hochon had brought about within that family . At nine o'clock , old Monsieur Heron , the notary , presented himself with a bundle of papers , and found a fire in the hall which the old miser , contrary to all his habits , had ordered to be lighted . Madame Hochon , already dressed at this unusual hour , was sitting in her armchair at the corner of the fireplace . The two grandsons , warned the night before by Adolphine that a storm was gathering about their heads , had been ordered to stay in the house . Summoned now by Gritte , they were alarmed at the formal preparations of their grandparents , whose coldness and anger they had been made to feel in the air for the last twenty-four hours .