three o'clock
And a conversation ensued between the window and the sidewalk . Mme Boche was the concierge of the house wherein the restaurant Veau a Deux Tetes occupied the _ rez-de-chaussee _ . Many times Gervaise had waited for Lantier in the room of this woman rather than face the men who were eating . The concierge said she had just been round the corner to arouse a lazy fellow who had promised to do some work and then went on to speak of one of her lodgers who had come in the night before with some woman and had made such a noise that every one was disturbed until after three o'clock . As she gabbled , however , she examined Gervaise with considerable curiosity and seemed , in fact , to have come out under the window for that express purpose . `` Is Monsieur Lantier still asleep ? '' she asked suddenly .