ten o’clock
But Tantaine did not confine his attentions to wine only : he first ordered a bowl of punch , and then followed that up by a bottle of the best brandy . All the old man 's lost youth seemed to have come back to him : he sang , he drank , and he danced . Toto watched them in utter surprise , as the old man whirled the clumsy figure of the woman round the room . And he was rewarded for this tremendous exertion , for by ten o'clock she had consented , and Caroline left the Grand Turk on the arm of her future husband , having promised to take supper with him . Next morning , when the scavengers came down from Montmartre to ply their matutinal avocations , they found the body of a woman lying on her face on the pavement . They raised her up and carried her to an hospital . She was not dead , as had been at first supposed ; and when the unhappy creature came to her senses , she said that her name was Caroline Schimmel , that she had been to supper at a restaurant with her betrothed , and that from that instant she remembered nothing .