midnight
The Captain will enable me to get back to France , when I shall go to the Emperor again . It is no place for one of the Old Guard , here with Rapp . I am getting old , but he will find something for me to do , that little Emperor . '' At midnight they set out , quitting the house in the Frauengasse noiselessly . The street was quiet enough , for half the houses were empty now . Their footsteps were inaudible on the trodden snow . It was a dark night and not cold ; for the great frosts of this terrible winter were nearly over .