ten o’clock
At ten o'clock the crowd which assembled around the courtroom were informed that the trial was postponed until one o'clock in the afternoon of the same day . This change of hour , following on the news of the senator 's deliverance , Marthe 's arrest , and that of Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne , together with the denial of the right to communicate with the prisoners carried terror to the hotel de Chargeboeuf . The whole town and the spectators who had come to Troyes to be present at the trial , the short-hand writers for the daily journals , even the populace were in a ferment which can readily be imagined . The Abbe Goujet came at ten o'clock to see Monsieur and Madame d'Hauteserre and the counsel for the defence , who were breakfasting -- as well as they could under the circumstances . The abbe took Bordin and Monsieur Grandville apart , told them what Marthe had confided to him the day before , and gave them the fragment of the letter she had received . The two lawyers exchanged a look , after which Bordin said to the abbe : `` Not a word of all this ! The case is lost ; but at any rate let us show a firm front . ''