eleven o’clock
And with that the three judges put on their robes and went into court . At noon Mlle. Armande and the Bishop reached the Hotel d'Esgrignon ; Chesnel and M. Couturier were there to meet them . There was a sufficiently short conference between the prelate and Mme. du Croisier 's director , and the latter set out at once to visit his charge . At eleven o'clock that morning du Croisier received a summons to appear in the examining magistrate 's office between one and two in the afternoon . Thither he betook himself , consumed by well-founded suspicions . It was impossible that the President should have foreseen the arrival of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse upon the scene , the return of the public prosecutor , and the hasty confabulation of his learned brethren ; so he had omitted to trace out a plan for du Croisier 's guidance in the event of the preliminary examination taking place . Neither of the pair imagined that the proceedings would be hurried on in this way .