three in the morning
Madame Boche was concierge of the building where the `` Two-Headed Calf '' was on the ground floor . Gervaise had waited for Lantier more than once in the concierge 's lodge , so as not to be alone at table with all the men who ate at the restaurant . Madame Boche was going to a tailor who was late in mending an overcoat for her husband . She mentioned one of her tenants who had come in with a woman the night before and kept everybody awake past three in the morning . She looked at Gervaise with intense curiosity . `` Is Monsieur Lantier , then , still in bed ? '' she asked abruptly .