five o'clock
`` Because , by doing so , I should have both violated a confidence , and re-opened a wound which still burns , '' said Tricotrin , more like Athos than ever . `` Only the urgency of your need , my comrade , could induce me to take the course that I project . Now let me sleep , for to-morrow I must have all my wits ! '' It was , however , five o'clock already , and before either of them had slept long , the street was clattering with feet on their way to the laundries , and vendors of delicacies were bawling suggestions for appetising breakfasts . `` Not only do the shouts of these monsters disturb my slumber , but they taunt my starvation ! '' yawned the poet . `` Yet , now I come to think of it , I have an appointment with a man who has sworn to lend me a franc , so perhaps I had better get up before he is likely to have spent it .