ten o'clock
`` I was sure of it ! '' said Fougas . He poured down a bumper of a certain kirsch-wasser from the Black Forest , which he fancied delicious with his maccaroni . The same evening , M. Langevin related to his wife how , on returning from the club at ten o'clock , he had been brutally accosted by a drunken man . He at first took him for a robber , and prepared to defend himself ; but the man contented himself with embracing him , and then ran away with all his might . This singular accident threw the two spouses into a series of conjectures , each less probable than the preceding . But as they were both young , and had been married barely seven years , they soon changed the subject .