nine o’clock
`` See , I have king , queen , knave of trumps , Mistigris , and a king . We win the basket , sister . '' This victory , gained at one stroke , without playing a card , horrified Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel , who ceased to concern herself about Calyste and Mademoiselle des Touches . By nine o'clock no one remained in the salon but the baroness and the rector . The four old people had gone to their beds . The chevalier , according to his usual custom , accompanied Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel to her house in the Place de Guerande , making remarks as they went along on the cleverness of the last play , on the joy with which Mademoiselle Zephirine engulfed her gains in those capacious pockets of hers , -- for the old blind woman no longer repressed upon her face the visible signs of her feelings . Madame du Guenic 's evident preoccupation was the chief topic of conversation , however .