six o'clock in
the morning
We would meet at the castle , which is two miles and a half from the station . The programme appealed to Beautrelet , and especially the idea that he would reach the castle at almost the same time as Massiban , for he feared some blunder on the part of that inexperienced man . He went back to his friend and spent the rest of the day with him . In the evening , he took the Brittany express and got out at Velines as six o'clock in the morning . He did the two and a half miles , between bushy woods , on foot . He could see the castle , perched on a height , from a distance : it was a hybrid edifice , a mixture of the Renascence and Louis Philippe styles , but it bore a stately air , nevertheless , with its four turrets and its ivy-mantled draw-bridge . Isidore felt his heart beat as he approached .