midnight
`` Where shall we find him ? '' asked Passepoil . Cocardasse consulted the watch which he owed to the bounty of the Prince de Gonzague . `` He will be here at midnight . It is nearly that now . Come , man , come . '' And the baffled , bewildered , angry pair plunged despairingly into the thickness of the crowd about them , hoping against hope to find their lost charge for the moment when Lagardere was to make his appearance .