five o'clock
Then , chilled and drowsy , she had thrown herself across the bed , bathed in tears . For a week he had not appeared till late , alleging that he had been in search of work . This evening she thought she had seen him enter a dancing-hall opposite , and , five or six paces behind , little Adèle , a burnisher . Towards five o'clock Gervaise awoke , stiff and sore . Seated on the edge of the bed , her eyes veiled in tears , she glanced round the wretched room , furnished with a chest of drawers , three chairs and a little greasy table on which stood a broken water-jug . On the mantelpiece was a bundle of pawn tickets . It was the best room of the lodging house , the Hôtel Boncoeur , in the Boulevard de la Chapelle .