nine o'clock
He was the only man in Paris to whom the ladies accorded this honor openly . They did it not to my master , because everybody knew that Count Saxe was too , too charming . But Monsieur Voltaire was already losing his teeth , and looked sixty , though not yet fifty , and had begun to give himself grandfatherly airs , whether in obedience to Madame du Châtelet , or because he was no longer young enough to play the gallant , I know not . One day , about three weeks after the scene in the garden of the Hôtel Kirkpatrick , I got a note from Francezka saying that she and Madame Villars , the one who had kissed Monsieur Voltaire publicly the year before , wished me to escort them to his lodgings that evening for a visit , and asking me to be at the Hôtel Kirkpatrick at nine o'clock . It was a bright moonlit May evening when I arrived . Two sedan chairs were in waiting for the ladies and a red domino and mask for me , in which I looked exactly like the devil . Madame Villars came tripping down into the courtyard , wearing a white domino and mask , followed by Francezka in a black and silver domino and mask .