about six o’clock
In the spacious hall they played billiards and other games , while one of the gentlemen performed on the large organ . There was a strange mixture of freedom and strictness . The smoke of Russian cigarettes mingled with the scent of opoponax . An elegant confusion which ended about six o'clock in a general flight , when the sportsmen came home , and the guests went to their rooms . An hour afterward all these people met in the large drawing-room ; the ladies in low-bodied evening dresses ; the gentlemen in dress-coats and white satin waistcoats , with a sprig of mignonette and a white rose in their buttonholes . After dinner , they danced in the drawing-rooms , where a mad waltz would even restore energy to the gentlemen tired out by six hours spent in the field . Madame Desvarennes did not join in that wild existence .