three o’clock
`` Ah ! ah ! it 's ready , is it not ? '' said he ; `` Monsieur Firon-Badinier has again written me that he will be here at three o'clock . And you know that I 'm going to take you to the restaurant with him this evening ; for one can never induce those fellows to give orders unless one plies them with good wine . It annoys Constance to have it done here ; and , besides , I prefer to entertain those people in town . You warned Marianne , eh ? ''