eight o'clock in the morning
The ways ? More than that , the authority , the right to join her . For , after all , the time-table , and the trains themselves , were not meant for dogs . If the public were carefully informed , by means of printed advertisements , that at eight o'clock in the morning a train started for Pierrefonds which arrived there at ten , that could only be because going to Pierrefonds was a lawful act , for which permission from Odette would be superfluous ; an act , moreover , which might be performed from a motive altogether different from the desire to see Odette , since persons who had never even heard of her performed it daily , and in such numbers as justified the labour and expense of stoking the engines . So it came to this ; that she could not prevent him from going to Pierrefonds if he chose to do so . Now that was precisely what he found that he did choose to do , and would at that moment be doing were he , like the travelling public , not acquainted with Odette . For a long time past he had wanted to form a more definite impression of Viollet-le-Duc 's work as a restorer .