three o'clock
`` If it is -- very true , you had better eat your dinner , '' said his uncle . And to be sure , in a few minutes , Gigot came in with a letter , Angelot 's marching orders . At five o'clock the next morning César d'Ombré would wait for him at the Étang des Morts , a lonely , legend-haunted pool in the woods where four roads met , about two leagues beyond the _ landes _ by way of La Joubardière . `` Very well ; you will start at three o'clock , '' said Monsieur Joseph . `` Give the man something to eat and send him back , Gigot , to meet his master . '' `` Three o'clock ! I shall be asleep ! ''