noon
`` For Versailles , '' said the office messenger to Rodolphe . `` Come , '' said Rodolphe , `` it is all over ! ... But let me see , '' he thought , `` my appointment is for this evening . It is noon , so I have five hours to find five francs in -- twenty sous an hour , like the horses in the Bois du Boulogne . Forward . '' As he found himself in a neighborhood where the journalist , whom he styled the influential critic , resided , Rodolphe thought of having a try at him . `` I am sure to find him in , '' said he , as he ascended the stairs , `` it is the day he writes his criticism -- there is no fear of his being out .