eleven o'clock
Consequently , in order not to frighten poor Bathilde too much , he shut his window , hoping that by this concession he should obtain some sign , which would indicate to him that he was pardoned . But it did not turn out so . D'Harmental waited in vain all the evening , and a great part of the night . At eleven o'clock , the light scarcely seen through the double curtains , still hermetically closed , went out altogether , and D'Harmental was obliged to renounce the hope of seeing Bathilde till the next day . The next day brought the same rigor ; it was a settled plan of defense , which , with a man less in love than D'Harmental , would simply have indicated fear of defeat ; but the chevalier , with a simplicity worthy of the age of gold , saw nothing but a coldness , in the eternity of which he began to believe , and it is true that it had lasted four and twenty hours . D'Harmental passed the morning in turning in his mind a thousand projects , each more absurd than the preceding one . The only one which had common sense was to cross the street , mount boldly to Bathilde 's room , and tell her everything .