seven o'clock
She could only place confidence in a Dutchman . At the end of her wits with fear , she thought she would go after my uncle or me ; so , without thinking any more about it , as she knew our address , she takes a cab and gets driven to the Rue de Varennes , believing in her simplicity that this was where our shops and offices were . She arrives and asks for my uncle . Being seven o'clock , the hall-porter tells her that the captain will soon be in , shows her to the staircase , and rings the bell ; one of the men-servants asks her for her name , and then opens the folding doors , announcing -- `` Madame Barbassou ! '' It is my aunt Eudoxia who receives her . My aunt Van Cloth , who is distracted with anxiety , thinks that she sees before her some lady of my family , and in order to excuse herself for disturbing her , begins by saying that she has come to see Captain Barbassou , _ her husband _ . Imagine the stupefaction of my aunt Eudoxia !