about three o'clock
Money was not invented that it should be allowed to grow moldy , was it ? It is pretty when it shines all new in the sunshine . She resembled them so little now , that on the days when she had twenty sous she arranged things to let people think that she had forty . Mother Coupeau and Gervaise talked of the Lorilleuxs whilst they laid the cloth about three o'clock . They had hung some big curtains at the windows ; but as it was very warm the door was left open and the whole street passed in front of the little table . The two women did not place a decanter , or a bottle , or a salt-cellar , without trying to arrange them in such a way as to annoy the Lorilleuxs . They had arranged their seats so as to give them a full view of the superbly laid cloth , and they had reserved the best crockery for them , well knowing that the porcelain plates would create a great effect .