nine o'clock
`` What is the use of separating ? The weather has cleared up , and we will go and walk about , and give a look at the Allée des Veuves ; you will see how my woman will work . When that is done , we will return and play a hand at piquet , and have a bit of something in a place in the Champs Elysées that I know , near the river ; and , as the Allée des Veuves is deserted at an early hour , we will walk that way about ten o'clock . '' `` I will join you at nine o'clock . '' `` Do you or do you not wish that we should do this job together ? '' `` I do wish it . '' `` Well , then , we do not separate before evening , or else -- '' `` Or else ? ''