two o’clock in the morning
`` In forty-eight hours , Godefroid de Beaudenord , late of the diplomatic corps , saw through the Matifats and their nefarious designs , '' resumed Bixiou . `` Rastignac happened to be chatting with the frivolous Baroness when Godefroid came in to give his report to Malvina . A word here and there reached his ear ; he guessed the matter on foot , more particularly from Malvina 's look of satisfaction that it was as she had suspected . Then Rastignac actually stopped on till two o'clock in the morning . And yet there are those that call him selfish ! Beaudenord took his departure when the Baroness went to bed . `` As soon as Rastignac was left alone with Malvina , he spoke in a fatherly , good-humored fashion .