five o'clock
`` I can only beg you to assist me in proving my innocence . I know nothing of this affair . '' When the judge had stated all the suspicious facts which were against him , ending with Max 's declaration , Joseph was astounded . `` But , '' said he , `` it was past five o'clock when I left the house . I went up the Grande rue , and at half-past five I was standing looking up at the facade of the parish church of Saint-Cyr . I talked there with the sexton , who came to ring the angelus , and asked him for information about the building , which seems to me fantastic and incomplete . Then I passed through the vegetable-market , where some women had already assembled .