about three o'clock
From these repeated excursions she brought back peculiarities of speech and behavior , equivocal songs , and a style of dress that imported into the bourgeois atmosphere of the old commercial house an accurate reproduction of the most advanced type of the Paris cocotte of that period . At the factory they began to suspect something . The women of the people , even the poorest , are so quick at picking a costume to pieces ! When Madame Risler went out , about three o'clock , fifty pairs of sharp , envious eyes , lying in ambush at the windows of the polishing-shop , watched her pass , penetrating to the lowest depths of her guilty conscience through her black velvet dolman and her cuirass of sparkling jet . Although she did not suspect it , all the secrets of that mad brain were flying about her like the ribbons that played upon her bare neck ; and her daintily-shod feet , in their bronzed boots with ten buttons , told the story of all sorts of clandestine expeditions , of the carpeted stairways they ascended at night on their way to supper , and the warm fur robes in which they were wrapped when the coupe made the circuit of the lake in the darkness dotted with lanterns . The work-women laughed sneeringly and whispered : `` Just look at that Tata Bebelle ! A fine way to dress to go out .