half past ten
`` Begone ! '' `` I entreat your lordship 's pardon , but your fire is out , -- the cold is intense , -- indeed , I must remind your lordship that after your late -- your -- '' `` Will you be silent ? Leave me I say ! '' `` Pray do not be angry , my lord , '' replied the trembling valet ; `` but , if your lordship pleases to recollect , you appointed M. Doublet to be here to-day at half past ten , and he is now waiting with the notary . '' `` Quite proper , '' said the marquis , with a bitter smile ; `` when a man is rich he ought , he should look carefully to his affairs . Fortune is a fine thing , -- a very fine thing ; or would be if it could but purchase happiness . '' Then , resuming a cold and collected manner , he added : `` Show M. Doublet into my study . ''