eight o'clock in the
morning
he whispered , smiling and folding them up . `` Protestations of love -- that is to say , falsehoods . But I must confess that this arrow , which mes chers amis mes ennemis have discharged at me , is at least very finely feathered and very attractive . At eight o'clock in the morning , then ! Well , I shall see whether I do not succeed in playing my hostile friends a little trick , and in returning the arrow to their own breast . '' For some time past the inhabitants of Berlin had paid a great deal of attention to the doings of Doctor Binder , and told each other wonderful stories of the new medical system of this strange physician . He treated his patients in an entirely novel way , and performed his cures in a manner bordering strongly on the romantic and miraculous .