six o’clock
These things were set down simply as his impulse dictated , like a kind of confession by which he relieved his feelings . He had not yet come to any positive decision as to how he should play the part of a justiciar , which seemed so heavy to his shoulders . His one purpose was to warn Mathieu in order that there might be two of them to decide and act . And he simply finished by asking the other to come to see him on the following evening , though not before six o'clock , as he desired to see Alexandre and learn how the interview passed off , and what Constance might require of the young man . The ensuing night , the ensuing day , must have been full of abominable torment for Morange . The doorkeeper 's wife recounted , later on , that the fourth-floor tenant had heard the old gentleman walking about overhead all through the night . Doors were slammed , and furniture was dragged about as if for a removal .