ten o'clock in the evening
D'Harmental , wounded by this prudery , closed his window . The evening passed in reading , drawing , and playing . The chevalier could not have believed that there were so many minutes in an hour , or so many hours in a day . At ten o'clock in the evening he rang for the porter , to give orders for the next day ; but no one answered ; he had been in bed a long time , and D'Harmental learned that there were people who went to bed about the time he ordered his carriage to pay visits . -LSB- Illustration : D'HARMENTAL -- Page 247 . -RSB- This set him thinking of the strange manners of that unfortunate class of society who do not know the opera , who do not go to supper-parties , and who sleep all night and are awake all day . He thought you must come to the Rue du Temps Perdu to see such things , and promised himself to amuse his friends with an account of this singularity .