eight o'clock
in the morning
`` When Madame changes her days she will do well to tell me so that I may know . Then the old miser is no longer due on the Tuesday ? '' Between themselves they were wont thus gravely to nickname as `` old miser '' and `` nigger '' their two paying visitors , one of whom was a tradesman of economical tendencies from the Faubourg Saint-Denis , while the other was a Walachian , a mock count , whose money , paid always at the most irregular intervals , never looked as though it had been honestly come by . Daguenet had made Nana give him the days subsequent to the old miser 's visits , and as the trader had to be at home by eight o'clock in the morning , the young man would watch for his departure from Zoes kitchen and would take his place , which was still quite warm , till ten o'clock . Then he , too , would go about his business . Nana and he were wont to think it a very comfortable arrangement . `` So much the worse , '' said Nana ; `` I 'll write to him this afternoon .