eleven o'clock
After all , he had to do something . He could not go about searching for the vanished lady every moment of the day and night . That much distraction , at least , he would allow himself . It was now eleven o'clock . He would wait until _ déjeuner _ was over , and then he would go out somewhere -- anywhere -- so long as there were moving crowds of people to furnish some chance of his meeting her again . Next time , without fail , he would manage a conversation . That afternoon then he stepped out of the _ hôtel _ and engaged a _ fiacre _ -- a taximeter would be of no use , Paul thought .