midnight
`` Mon corps reviendra pour chercher mon coeur . '' `` We shall not forget you , '' said the duchesse . `` Your Highness has now given me my only inducement not to return , '' I answered , as I bowed out of the room . It was much too early to go home ; at that time I was too young and restless to sleep till long after midnight ; and while I was deliberating in what manner to pass the hours , I suddenly recollected the hotel in the Rue St. Honore , to which Vincent and I had paid so unceremonious a visit the night before . Impressed with the hope that I might be more successful in meeting Warburton than I had then been , I ordered the coachman to drive to the abode of the old Marquis -- The salon was as crowded as usual . I lost a few Napoleons at ecarte in order to pay my entree , and then commenced a desultory flirtation with one of the fair decoys . In this occupation my eye and my mind frequently wandered .