ten o’clock
`` Pooh ! they are all gone out . Mme. Couture and the girl went out at eight o'clock to take the wafer at Saint-Etienne . Father Goriot started off somewhere with a parcel , and the student wo n't be back from his lecture till ten o'clock . I saw them go while I was sweeping the stairs ; Father Goriot knocked up against me , and his parcel was as hard as iron . What is the old fellow up to , I wonder ? He is as good as a plaything for the rest of them ; they can never let him alone ; but he is a good man , all the same , and worth more than all of them put together .