five o'clock
`` I have a trifle about me , '' said Providence , timidly , `` but it is very little . '' `` If I had enough to take a cab I might get to Batignolles in time . '' `` Here is the contents of my purse , my dear fellow , thirty one sous . '' `` Give it to me at once , that I may bolt , '' said Rodolphe , who had just heard five o'clock strike , and who hastened off to keep his appointment . `` It has been hard to get , '' said he , counting out his money . `` A hundred sous exactly . At last I am supplied , and Laure will see that she has to do with a man who knows how to do things properly .