four in the afternoon
We went off to Nancy , where , said he , we should find the purchaser . At Nancy , no one ; whoever it was , had gone to a street in one of the suburbs . We waited in a little flat . Towards four in the afternoon Alfred said to me : ` Bah ! Do n't let us hesitate any longer . If the stranger has not come , it is because he is waiting for us elsewhere -- I know where -- let us go to meet him -- at Metz ! '' '' ` At Metz ! '