five o'clock in the morning
We imagined , like inexperienced children , that such a sum could never be exhausted , and we counted , with equal confidence , upon the success of our other schemes . `` After having supped , with certainly more satisfaction than I had ever before experienced , I retired to prepare for our project . All my arrangements were the more easy , because , for the purpose of returning on the morrow to my father 's , my luggage had been already packed . I had , therefore , no difficulty in removing my trunk , and having a chaise prepared for five o'clock in the morning , at which hour the gates of the town would be opened ; but I encountered an obstacle which I was little prepared for , and which nearly upset all my plans . `` Tiberge , although only three years older than myself , was a youth of unusually strong mind , and of the best regulated conduct . He loved me with singular affection . The sight of so lovely a girl as Manon , my ill-disguised impatience to conduct her to the inn , and the anxiety I betrayed to get rid of him , had excited in his mind some suspicions of my passion .