eleven o’clock
`` Ah ! my dear fellow , what a future you are preparing for yourself ! '' cried Maxime . `` It is eleven o'clock ; she must have returned from the Ambigu , '' said Rochefide , leaving the club . And he called out his coachman to drive at top speed to the rue de la Bruyere . Madame Schontz had given precise directions ; monsieur could enter as master with the fullest understanding of madame ; but , warned by the noise of monsieur 's arrival , madame had so arranged that the sound of her dressing-door closing as women 's doors do close when they are surprised , was to reach monsieur 's ears . Then , at a corner of the piano , Fabien 's hat , forgotten intentionally , was removed very awkwardly by a maid the moment after monsieur had entered the room .