three o'clock
Le Menil , in the anteroom , took Madame Martin 's cloak , and , while he held it unfolded , she traversed the box , the anteroom , and stopped before the mirror of the half-open door . He placed on her bare shoulders the cape of red velvet embroidered with gold and lined with ermine , and said , in a low tone , but distinctly : `` Therese , I love you . Remember what I asked you the day before yesterday . I shall be every day , at three o'clock , at our home , in the Rue Spontini . '' At this moment , as she made a motion with her head to receive the cloak , she saw Dechartre with his hand on the knob of the door . He had heard . He looked at her with all the reproach and suffering that human eyes can contain .