about two o'clock
Nothing could save him from his determination . He had lived as an aristocrat -- it was incumbent on him , he said , not to shirk death as one . At last la Tour left him and sought for the Admiral . He could not find the latter until about two o'clock , and then at the prison . The concierge said he was in the courtyard and la Tour found him engaged in a singular business . The women 's courtyard was separated by an iron railing some fifteen feet long from the men 's . Here the imprisoned ladies communicated with their male friends as gaily as if each were not foredoomed .