midnight
We can be sure , however , of three hours . I hope it will be light . Well , we must trust to Providence . And now , my son , farewell till midnight . '' Claude remained alone once more , with his brain in a whirl from the tumult of thought which had arisen . This interview with the priest had been the most eventful hour of his life . He had learned the secret of his parentage , the wrongs and sufferings of his father and mother , the villany of Cazeneau , the true reason for the bitter enmity which in him had triumphed over gratitude , and made him seek so pertinaciously the life of the man who had once saved his own .