about noon
de Cardoville , and waited unobtrusively for the confidential communications into which Djalma was sometimes hurried by his excessive joy . A few days after the interview last described between Adrienne and Djalma , and on the morrow of the day when Rodin , certain of the success of Ninny Moulin 's mission to Sainte Colombe , had himself put a letter in the post to the address of Agricola Baudoin , the half-caste , who for some time had appeared oppressed with a violent grief , seemed to get so much worse , that the prince , struck with the desponding air of the man , asked him kindly and repeatedly the cause of his sorrow . But Faringhea , while he gratefully thanked the prince for the interest he took in him , maintained the most absolute silence and reserve on the subject of his grief . These preliminaries will enable the reader to understand the following scene , which took place about noon in the house in the Rue de Clichy occupied by the Hindoo . Contrary to his habit , Djalma had not passed that morning with Adrienne . He had been informed the evening before , by the young lady , that she must ask of him the sacrifice of this whole day , to take the necessary measures to make their marriage sacred and acceptable in the eyes of the world , and yet free from the restrictions which she and Djalma disapproved . As for the means to be employed by Mdlle .