ten o’clock
`` She is very lenient to Monsieur de Savarus , '' she whispered to her mother . `` You see , '' said the Baroness with a smile , `` there is a question of a marriage between Sidonie and Monsieur de Savarus . '' Mademoiselle de Watteville hastily went to a window looking out over the garden . At ten o'clock Albert de Savarus had not yet appeared . The storm that threatened now burst . Some of the gentlemen sat down to cards , finding the thing intolerable . The Abbe de Grancey , who did not know what to think , went to the window where Rosalie was hidden , and exclaimed aloud in his amazement , `` He must be dead ! ''