ten o'clock
`` I give you my opinion , and devil fetch me if I stir from here before ten o'clock . '' `` Do n't disturb yourself , -- I never close my establishment before midnight , '' said Bras Rouge , in his falsetto voice ; `` it is the time when my best customers drop in ; and my neighbours never complain of the noise which is made in my house . '' `` I must agree to all you wish , young man , '' continued the Schoolmaster . `` Be it so , then ; we will not set out on our visit until ten o'clock . '' `` Here is the Chouette ! '' said Bras Rouge , hearing and replying to a warning cry similar to that which the Schoolmaster had uttered before he descended to the subterraneous abode . A minute afterwards the Chouette entered the billiard-room alone .