two o'clock
Madame Renault was making tea and coffee , and punch too . Gothon , who had taken communion in the morning , kept praying to God , in the corner of her kitchen , that this impious miracle might not succeed . A certain excitement already prevailed throughout the town , but one did not know whether it should be attributed to the _ fête _ of the 15th , or the famous undertaking of the seven wise men of Paris . By two o'clock on the 16th , encouraging results were obtained . The skin and muscles had recovered nearly all their suppleness , but the joints were still hard to bend . The collapsed condition of the walls of the abdomen and the interval between the ribs , still indicated that the viscera were far from having reabsorbed the quantity of water which they had previously lost with Herr Meiser . A bath was prepared and kept at a temperature of thirty-seven degrees and a half .