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It 's that absurd Chevalier , '' went on Madame Léonie , looking towards the divan ... `` Her hair 's come down . You may imagine she did not stop to call her maid to dress it before she started ... . Adèle , my dear , sit up ... . He blurted it all out to her at half-past four in the morning . She woke up early , and opened her shutters , to breathe the fresh air , and saw him sitting collapsed on a garden bench at the end of the great alley . At that hour -- you may imagine ! And the evening before he had declared himself indisposed .