About two o’clock
`` But instead of going to his guests , Cursy strode up and down the boulevard between the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue du Mont Blanc , indulging in the most fearful imprecations , his unbounded language was most comical to hear . His paroxysm of fury in the street contrasted oddly with his peaceable demeanor in the house . Exercise assisted him to work off his nervous agitation and inward tempest . About two o'clock , on a sudden frantic impulse , he exclaimed : ``` These damned females never know what they want . I will wager my head now that if I go home and tell her that I have sent to ask my friends to dine with me at the _ Rocher de Cancale _ , she will not be satisfied though she made the arrangement herself . -- But she will have gone off somewhere or other . I wonder whether there is something at the bottom of all this , an assignation with some goat ?