midnight
And now , when everything was arranged , when the bridegroom and the bride were actually waiting in the chapel , when every minute was of importance and might bring some fatal interruption -- now , here was the excellent old Curé full of curious questions and narrow-minded objections . `` Monsieur le Comte , impossible ! '' he cried in the corridor . `` Marry mademoiselle your daughter to Ange de la Marinière -- and without any proper notice , without witnesses , at midnight , unknown to his parents ! Do you take me for a constitutional priest , may I ask ? '' `` No , Monsieur le Curé , and that is why I demand this service of you . You , an old friend of both families , I send for you rather than for my own Curé of Lancilly . ''