about six in the evening
Give me your card and I will write down my address on it . '' All this was said so cordially that I could not resist my friend 's invitation , and promised to visit him . Three or four days later , Paris being empty and the recollection of my old companion haunting me , I felt a strong desire to take a peep at his conjugal felicity and to see with my own eyes this stream , this mill , this steeple , beside all which he was so happy . I reached Les Roches at about six in the evening and was charmed at the very first glance . Oscar 's residence was a little Louis Quinze chateau buried in the trees ; irregularly built , but charmingly picturesque . It had been left unaltered for a century at least , and everything , from the blackened mansard roofs with their rococo weather-cocks , to the bay windows with their tiny squares of glass and the fantastic escutcheon over the door , was in keeping . Over the thick tiles of the somewhat sunken roof , the rough-barked old chestnuts lazily stretched their branches .