eight o'clock
Schaunard , not willing to be behindhand in courtesy , called for an extra quart of wine . The hero of the books called for a third . Schaunard treated to salad , the other to dessert . At eight o'clock there were six empty bottles on the table . As they talked , their natural frankness , assisted by their libations , had urged them to interchange biographies , and they knew each other as well as if they had always lived together . He of the books , after hearing the confidential disclosures of Schaunard , had informed him that his name was Gustave Colline ; he was a philosopher by profession , and got his living by giving lessons in rhetoric , mathematics and several other _ ics _ . What little money he picked up by his profession was spent in buying books .