eight o’clock
she said : `` so much the better ! '' Such was our condition when we rang our friend 's door-bell . Same day . It was eight o'clock . Madame de Gabry , as might be supposed , was very much surprised by our unexpected appearance . But she welcomed the old man and the child with that glad kindness which always expresses itself in her beautiful gestures . It seems to me , -- if I might use the language of devotion so familiar to her , -- it seems to me as though some heavenly grace streams from her hands when ever she opens them ; and even the perfume which impregnates her robes seems to inspire the sweet calm zeal of charity and good works .