eleven o'clock
I was a little troubled about money , because when I had paid for the licence and given to the cure the required fee for the religious service and ceremony , I had only five francs left out of the hundred which the adored one had given me . However , I booked the seats on the stage-coach and determined to trust to luck . Once Estelle was my wife , all money care would be at an end , since no power on earth could stand between me and the hundred thousand francs , the happy goal for which I had so ably striven . The marriage ceremony was fixed for eleven o'clock , and it was just upon ten when , at last , with a light heart and springy step , I ran up the dingy staircase which led to the adored one 's apartments . I knocked at the door . It was opened by a young man , who with a smile courteously bade me enter . I felt a little bewildered -- and slightly annoyed .