about nine o'clock in the morning
It 's Fandor ! '' Juve and Doctor Gast were talking in low tones in the dining-room adjoining the bedroom . Their patient , Fandor , had just wakened and had cried out : `` I 'm dying of hunger ! '' It was about nine o'clock in the morning . After rescuing his friend Fandor from his perilous situation , he had taken the unfortunate journalist to his own home in Rue Richer and called in a physician of the quarter , Doctor Gast . An examination of the patient showed that he had received no serious injury , merely some abrasions and one or two burns . As Juve and the Doctor answered his call for food , Fandor sat up and without surprise or question repeated his cry : `` I 'm dying of hunger .