nine o'clock in the evening
`` Well then , '' she used to say when talking seriously about the matter , `` there 's no such thing as virtue left , is there ? '' From one end of the social ladder to the other everybody was on the loose ! Good gracious ! Some nice things ought to be going on in Paris between nine o'clock in the evening and three in the morning ! And with that she began making very merry and declaring that if one could only have looked into every room one would have seen some funny sights -- the little people going it head over ears and a good lot of swells , too , playing the swine rather harder than the rest . Oh , she was finishing her education ! One evening when she came to call for Satin she recognized the Marquis de Chouard .