four o’clock
`` Come , Adolphine , '' said Madame Hochon , `` go and see about dinner . '' `` Mother , '' said Joseph , `` I will attend to the trunks which they are bringing in . '' `` Hochon , '' said the grandmother to Francois , `` show the rooms to Monsieur Bridau . '' As the dinner was to be served at four o'clock and it was now only half past three , Baruch rushed into the town to tell the news of the Bridau arrival , describe Agathe 's dress , and more particularly to picture Joseph , whose haggard , unhealthy , and determined face was not unlike the ideal of a brigand . That evening Joseph was the topic of conversation in all the households of Issoudun . `` That sister of Rouget must have seen a monkey before her son was born , '' said one ; `` he is the image of a baboon . '' `` He has the face of a brigand and the eyes of a basilisk . ''