nine o'clock
One day she came upon a lad giving a kiss to the cook , and she became ill with disgust , and both parties were immediately dismissed from the house . She liked to have a party at an early hour in the evening , when she only invited clerics . On these occasions she used to sit in an armchair where , intentionally or unintentionally , probably intentionally , there were put two cushions so that she seemed to be in a valley . Soon after the arrival of the company , when the conversation became animated , she would fall into a deep sleep , and thus remain until nine o'clock , when the cassocked gentlemen retired , presumably , without shaking hands . As there was a chapel in the house she seldom went out , and when she did so , it was in the carriage . She kept all the money that came to her hands hidden away in secret places in the garret or the garden . Sometimes this avarice or , as it may be more correctly termed , this mania for hoarding , brought them into difficulties , and she preferred to let her son borrow money to disinterring her treasure .