ten o'clock at night
let us go ! '' cried Dolores . `` Very well , you shall go ; Coursegol will accompany us ; Bridoul will remain at home and take care of the house . '' A few moments later , Dolores , Cornelia and Coursegol , provided with the pass that all good patriots were obliged to carry if they were in the streets of Paris after ten o'clock at night , stole out of the wine-shop and turned their steps toward the Place Royale . The streets which they traversed , looking back anxiously now and then to make sure that they were not followed , were dark and almost deserted . It was only occasionally that they met little groups of two or three persons , who passed rapidly , as if they distrusted the other passers-by . A policeman stopped our friends .