three o'clock
The little citizen , not to be outdone , declared her to be a celestial witness . `` He must take his chance , '' said Madame Defarge . `` No , I can not spare him ! You are engaged at three o'clock ; you are going to see the batch of to-day executed . -- You ? '' The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer , who hurriedly replied in the affirmative : seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans , and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans , if anything prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber . He was so very demonstrative herein , that he might have been suspected -LRB- perhaps was , by the dark eyes that looked contemptuously at him out of Madame Defarge 's head -RRB- of having his small individual fears for his own personal safety , every hour in the day .