seven o'clock
`` An hour later the glitter of the silver would have thrown a new light on the deed of partnership . Our man would have fought shy of it . We have his promise now , and in three months ' time we shall know what to do . '' That very evening , at seven o'clock , Cerizet bought the business , and the money was paid over , the purchaser undertaking to pay rent for the last quarter . The next day Eve sent forty thousand francs to the Receiver-General , and bought two thousand five hundred francs of _ rentes _ in her husband 's name . Then she wrote to her father-in-law and asked him to find a small farm , worth about ten thousand francs , for her near Marsac . She meant to invest her own fortune in this way .