midnight
`` You see , I succeeded in meeting my uncle , and we went together to my office . My uncle keeps his accounts with me . Sometimes we look them over . We stayed until midnight ; I dismissed my carriage . As we walked homeward we met some friends coming out of the rooms of the Bagatelle Club ; five or six of my uncles and cousins , and also Doctor Keene . We all fell a-talking of my grandfather 's _ fête de grandpère _ of next month , and went to have some coffee . When we separated , and my uncle and my cousin Achille Grandissime and Doctor Keene and myself came down Royal street , out from that dark alley behind your shop jumped a little man and stuck my uncle with a knife .