eight o'clock in the
morning
I shall write more fully this evening . '' The next morning , about eight o'clock , the Princess de Saint-Dizier , in her carriage , and Rodin , in his hackney-coach , took the direction of Marshal Simon 's house . Marshal Simon has been absent two days . It is eight o'clock in the morning . Dagobert , walking on tip-toe with the greatest caution , so as not to make the floor creak beneath his tread , crosses the room which leads to the bedchamber of Rose and Blanche and applies his ear to the door of the apartment . With equal caution , Spoil-sport follows exactly the movements of his master . The countenance of the soldier is uneasy and full of thought .