ten o'clock
Here Mother Bunch returned , and said to Agricola : `` If you can come for me to-morrow , about three o'clock , so as not to lose the whole day , we will go to the factory , and you can bring me back in the evening . '' `` Then , at three o'clock to-morrow , my good sister . '' `` At three to-morrow , Agricola . '' The evening of that same day , when all was quiet in the hotel , Mother Bunch , who had remained till ten o'clock with Mdlle . de Cardoville , re entered her bedchamber , locked the door after her , and finding herself at length free and unrestrained , threw herself on her knees before a chair , and burst into tears . She wept long -- very long . When her tears at length ceased to flow , she dried her eyes , approached the writing-desk , drew out one of the boxes from the pigeonhole , and , taking from this hiding-place the manuscript which Florine had so rapidly glanced over the evening before , she wrote in it during a portion of the night .