midday
`` Bourgeat paid up my arrears and his own , and settled with the porter . Then he put our furniture and my box of linen in his cart , and pulled it along the street , stopping in front of every house where there was a notice board . I went up to see whether the rooms to let would suit us . At midday we were still wandering about the neighborhood without having found anything . The price was the great difficulty . Bourgeat proposed that we should eat at a wine shop , leaving the cart at the door . Towards evening I discovered , in the Cour de Rohan , Passage du Commerce , at the very top of a house next the roof , two rooms with a staircase between them .