three o'clock
Monte-Cristo had begged him to keep an eye on Spero . Since the count 's departure not a day had passed but that either Fanfaro or his faithful Bobichel watched every movement of the vicomte , and the night the young man and the painter were walking in the Champs-Elysées , the former clown had followed them as far as the Rue Montaigne . Bobichel then went home . It was three o'clock when he silently opened the street door . To his surprise Fanfaro met him as he entered , and told him that as he could not work he thought he would take a walk . Bobichel immediately declared that he would accompany him . It was in this way that they had rescued Anselmo and the old woman .