midnight
`` You are wrong , Mimi , in love affairs Friday is a lucky day ; the ancients called it Dies Veneris . '' `` I do not know Latin , '' said Mademoiselle Mimi , continuing her narration . `` I was coming back then from Paul 's and found Rodolphe waiting for me in the street . It was late , past midnight , and I was hungry for I had had no dinner . I asked Rodolphe to go and get something for supper . He came back half an hour later , he had run about a great deal to get nothing worth speaking of , some bread , wine , sardines , cheese , and an apple tart . I had gone to bed during his absence , and he laid the table beside the bed .