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How I spent the rest of the day I do not knoalked, smoked, talked,

but what I said, whootten by ten o'clock in

the evening

All I remember is that when I returned home, I spent three hours over

my toilet, and I looked at my watch and my clock a hundred times, which

unfortunately both pointed to the same hour

When it struck half past ten, I said to o

I lived at that time in the Rue de Provence; I followed the Rue du

Mont-Blanc, crossed the Boulevard, went up the Rue Louis-le-Grand, the

Rue de Port-Mahon, and the Rue d'Antin I looked up at Marguerite's

s There was a light I rang I asked the porter if Mlle Gautier

was at home He replied that she never came in before eleven or a

quarter past eleven I looked at my watch I intended to come quite

slowly, and I had come in five minutes from the Rue de Provence to the

Rue d'Antin

I walked to and fro in the street; there are no shops, and at that hour