midnight
`` They only parted to save me pain . It was a tremendous sacrifice which , of course , I can not accept . So now I have sent for him , and I want you to let me meet him here at your house , and explain everything to him to-morrow before he sees her . I hope , if he gets my telegram in time , he will catch the train from Paris at midnight to-night ; it gets in about nine in the morning . Then they can be happy on Christmas Day . '' `` You have done nobly , my son , '' and the Père Anselme lifted his hand in blessing . `` It is very merciful that this has been in time .