about ten o’clock in the evening
This discovery was a great relief to her . It was not very wrong to go there , and if the Prince did go and smoke a few cigars and have a game at bouillotte , it was not a very great crime . The return of his usual friends to Paris and the resumption of their receptions would bring him home again . Serge now left Micheline about ten o'clock in the evening regularly and arrived at the club about eleven . High play did not commence until after midnight . Then he seated himself at the gaming-table with all the ardor of a professional gambler . His face changed its expression .