Wednesday at three o'clock
During the dog-days he had suffered from an abscess , which Charles had cured as if by miracle by giving a timely little touch with the lancet . The steward sent to Tostes to pay for the operation reported in the evening that he had seen some superb cherries in the doctor 's little garden . Now cherry-trees did not thrive at Vaubyessard ; the Marquis asked Bovary for some slips ; made it his business to thank him personally ; saw Emma ; thought she had a pretty figure , and that she did not bow like a peasant ; so that he did not think he was going beyond the bounds of condescension , nor , on the other hand , making a mistake , in inviting the young couple . One Wednesday at three o'clock , Monsieur and Madame Bovary , seated in their dog-cart , set out for Vaubyessard , with a great trunk strapped on behind and a bonnet-box in front on the apron . Besides these Charles held a bandbox between his knees . They arrived at nightfall , just as the lamps in the park were being lighted to show the carriage-drive . The château , a modern building in Italian style , with two projecting wings and three flights of steps , lay at the foot of an immense green-sward , on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals , while large beds of arbutus , rhododendron , syringas , and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path .