eleven o’clock at night
There was quite a set out . This particular evening emerged in bold relief from the others . It had become one of the customs of the family , who regarded it in the light of a middle-class orgie full of giddy gaiety . They did not retire to rest until eleven o'clock at night . At Paris Madame Raquin had found one of her old friends , the commissary of police Michaud , who had held a post at Vernon for twenty years , lodging in the same house as the mercer . A narrow intimacy had thus been established between them ; then , when the widow had sold her business to go and reside in the house beside the river , they had little by little lost sight of one another . Michaud left the provinces a few months later , and came to live peacefully in Paris , Rue de Seine , on his pension of 1,500 francs .