three in the morning
`` I can only tell you this -- there will be many disappointments , and some that are anxious after the money will be foiled . M. Pons has made a good and very sensible will , a patriotic will , which I highly approve . '' La Cibot 's curiosity , kindled by such words , reached an unimaginable pitch . She went downstairs and spent the night at Cibot 's bedside , inwardly resolving that Mlle. Remonencq should take her place towards two or three in the morning , when she would go up and have a look at the document . Mlle. Brisetout 's visit towards half-past ten that night seemed natural enough to La Cibot ; but in her terror lest the ballet-girl should mention Gaudissart 's gift of a thousand francs , she went upstairs with her , lavishing polite speeches and flattery as if Mlle. Heloise had been a queen . `` Ah ! my dear , you are much nicer here on your own ground than at the theatre , '' Heloise remarked .