four
o’clock before
He rose late , and waited for Mme. de Nucingen , who came about noon to breakfast with him . Youth snatches eagerly at these rosy moments of happiness , and Eugene had almost forgotten Goriot 's existence . The pretty things that surrounded him were growing familiar ; this domestication in itself was one long festival for him , and Mme. de Nucingen was there to glorify it all by her presence . It was four o'clock before they thought of Goriot , and of how he had looked forward to the new life in that house . Eugene said that the old man ought to be moved at once , lest he should grow too ill to move . He left Delphine and hurried back to the lodging-house . Neither Father Goriot nor young Bianchon was in the dining-room with the others .