About eleven o’clock
`` But she certainly did a great deal to attract des Lupeaulx , '' said the Baronne du Chatelet to the Vicomtesse de Fontaine . `` Do you think -- '' began the vicomtesse . `` If so , '' interrupted Madame de Camps , in defence of her friend , `` Monsieur Rabourdin would at least have had the cross . '' About eleven o'clock des Lupeaulx appeared ; and we can only describe him by saying that his spectacles were sad and his eyes joyous ; the glasses , however , obscured the glances so successfully that only a physiognomist would have seen the diabolical expression which they wore . He went up to Rabourdin and pressed the hand which the latter could not avoid giving him . Then he approached Madame Rabourdin . `` We have much to say to each other , '' he remarked as he seated himself beside the beautiful woman , who received him admirably .