Six o’clock
Camille 's speech foreshadowed something fatal , and he believed in the second sight of her maternal affection . When he returned , four hours later , very tired , and expecting to dine at Les Touches , he found Camille 's maid keeping watch over the door , to tell him that neither her mistress nor the marquise could receive him that evening . Calyste , much surprised , wished to question her , but she bade him hastily good-night and closed the door . Six o'clock was striking on the steeple of Guerande as Calyste entered his own house , where Mariotte gave him his belated dinner ; after which , he played _ mouche _ in gloomy meditation . These alternations of joy and gloom , happiness and unhappiness , the extinction of hopes succeeding the apparent certainty of being loved , bruised and wounded the young soul which had flown so high on outstretched wings that the fall was dreadful . `` Does anything trouble you , my Calyste ? '' said his mother .