four o’clock
The worthy gentleman dined out every day , returning only in time to go to bed . His sole expense therefore was for breakfast , invariably composed of a cup of chocolate , with bread and butter and fruits in their season . He made no fire except in the coldest winter , and then only enough to get up by . Between eleven and four o'clock he walked about , went to read the papers , and paid visits . From the time of his settling in Alencon he had nobly admitted his poverty , saying that his whole fortune consisted in an annuity of six hundred francs a year , the sole remains of his former opulence , -- a property which obliged him to see his man of business -LRB- who held the annuity papers -RRB- quarterly . In truth , one of the Alencon bankers paid him every three months one hundred and fifty francs , sent down by Monsieur Bordin of Paris , the last of the _ procureurs du Chatelet _ . Every one knew these details because the chevalier exacted the utmost secrecy from the persons to whom he first confided them .