ten o'clock
I had two hundred francs in my pocket and there was a magnificent prospect of twenty thousand francs before me ! I could afford some slight extravagance . I had dinner at one of the fashionable restaurants on the quay , and I remained some time out on the terrace sipping my coffee and liqueur , dreaming dreams such as I had never dreamed before . At ten o'clock I was once more on my way to Passy . When I turned the corner of the street and came is sight of the squalid house where I lodged , I felt like a being from another world . Twenty thousand francs -- a fortune ! -- was waiting for me inside those dingy walls .