two o’clock in the
morning
They looked at each other without speaking . They were too shrewd and too well aware of the simplest scandals of Rome not to have divined the veritable cause of the encounter between Florent and Boleslas . On the other hand , they knew the latter too well not to mistrust somewhat his attitudes . However , there was such simple emotion in his accent that they spontaneously pitied him , and , without another word , they no longer opposed the caprices of their strange client , whom they did not leave until two o'clock in the morning -- and fortune favored them . For they found themselves at the end of a game , recklessly played , each the richer by two or three hundred louis apiece . That meant a few days more in Paris on the next visit . They , too , truly regretted their friend 's luck , saying , on separating : `` I very much fear for him , '' said Cibo .