nine o'clock
Then a gentleman came in , tall , and with a military bearing , gray-haired though still young , and wearing the ribbon of the Legion of Honor . Du Roy bowed , and said : `` As I foresaw , Mr. Commissionary , my wife is now dining with her lover in the furnished rooms they have hired in the Rue des Martyrs . '' The commissary of police bowed , saying : `` I am at your service , sir . '' George continued : `` You have until nine o'clock , have you not ? That limit of time passed , you can no longer enter a private dwelling to prove adultery . '' `` No , sir ; seven o'clock in winter , nine o'clock from the 31st March . It is the 5th of April , so we have till nine o'clock .