six o'clock
Then , too , the Tricon was to blame . She had come across her in the Rue de Laval one fine day when Fontan had gone out raging about a dish of cod . She had accordingly consented to the proposals made her by the Tricon , who happened just then to be in difficulty . As Fontan never came in before six o'clock , she made arrangements for her afternoons and used to bring back forty francs , sixty francs , sometimes more . She might have made it a matter of ten and fifteen louis had she been able to maintain her former position , but as matters stood she was very glad thus to earn enough to keep the pot boiling . At night she used to forget all her sorrows when Bosc sat there bursting with dinner and Fontan leaned on his elbows and with an expression of lofty superiority becoming a man who is loved for his own sake allowed her to kiss him on the eyelids . In due course Nana 's very adoration of her darling , her dear old duck , which was all the more passionately blind , seeing that now she paid for everything , plunged her back into the muddiest depths of her calling .