one o’clock in the morning
The toilets , faces , and conversations were all in keeping with one fact which will surely suffice even the dullest imagination ; they passed round , on tarnished and discolored trays , common tumblers filled with wine , `` eau rougie , '' and `` eau sucree . '' The trays on which were glasses of orgeat and glasses of syrup and water appeared only at long intervals . There were five card-tables and twenty-five players , and eighteen dancers of both sexes . At one o'clock in the morning , all present -- Madame Thuillier , Mademoiselle Brigitte , Madame Phellion , even Phellion himself -- were dragged into the vivacities of a country-dance , vulgarly called `` La Boulangere , '' in which Dutocq figured with a veil over his head , after the manner of the Kabyl . The servants who were waiting to escort their masters home , and those of the household , were audience to this performance ; and after the interminable dance had lasted one whole hour it was proposed to carry Brigitte in triumph when she gave the announcement that supper was served . This circumstance made her see the necessity of hiding a dozen bottles of old burgundy . In short , the company had amused themselves so well , the matrons as well as the young girls , that Thuillier found occasion to say : -- `` Well , well , this morning we little thought we should have such a fete to-night . ''