about three o'clock in the
afternoon
-LSB- 41 -RSB- Jacques Rennepont being dead , and Gabriel out of the field , in consequence of his donation , there remained only five persons of the family -- Rose and Blanche , Djalma , Adrienne , and Hardy . Two days have elapsed since Rodin was miraculously restored to life . The reader will not have forgotten the house in the Rue Clovis , where the reverend father had an apartment , and where also was the lodging of Philemon , inhabited by Rose-Pompon . It is about three o'clock in the afternoon . A bright ray of light , penetrating through a round hole in the door Mother Arsene 's subterraneous shop , forms a striking contrast with the darkness of this cavern . The ray streams full upon a melancholy object . In the midst of fagots and faded vegetables , and close to a great heap of charcoal , stands a wretched bed ; beneath the sheet , which covers it , can be traced the stiff and angular proportions of a corpse .