four o’clock
`` Henceforth , for the cost of your dinner , you shall live like a prince . '' Having induced the landlord to let her have a kitchen and two servants ' rooms , Madame de la Baudraye wrote a few lines to her mother , begging her to send her some linen and a loan of a thousand francs . She received two trunks full of linen , some plate , and two thousand francs , sent by the hand of an honest and pious cook recommended her by her mother . Ten days after the evening at the theatre when they had met , Monsieur de Clagny came to call at four o'clock , after coming out of court , and found Madame de la Baudraye making a little cap . The sight of this proud and ambitious woman , whose mind was so accomplished , and who had queened it so well at the Chateau d'Anzy , now condescending to household cares and sewing for the coming infant , moved the poor lawyer , who had just left the bench . And as he saw the pricks on one of the taper fingers he had so often kissed , he understood that Madame de la Baudraye was not merely playing at this maternal task . In the course of this first interview the magistrate saw to the depths of Dinah 's soul .