afternoon, about four o’clock
Agathe rose ; her scissors and work fell at her feet ; she went and kissed Joseph 's head , and dropped two tears on his hair . `` He is your passion , that fellow , '' said the painter . `` We all have our hopeless passions . '' That afternoon , about four o'clock , Joseph went to the rue du Sentier and found his brother , who had taken Giroudeau 's place . The old dragoon had been promoted to be cashier of a weekly journal established by his nephew . Although Finot was still proprietor of the other newspaper , which he had divided into shares , holding all the shares himself , the proprietor and editor `` de visu '' was one of his friends , named Lousteau , the son of that very sub-delegate of Issoudun on whom the Bridaus ' grandfather , Doctor Rouget , had vowed vengeance ; consequently he was the nephew of Madame Hochon . To make himself agreeable to his uncle , Finot gave Philippe the place Giroudeau was quitting ; cutting off , however , half the salary .