Midnight
The veiled young woman , very nervous and strangely agitated , made her way back to the spot where the horses were standing . Making her way through the cluster of small tables which lined the inner side of the sidewalk , she found one unoccupied at the extreme end , a position which commanded a view of the street down which she had just come . Half an hour passed . Midnight revellers at the surrounding tables began to take notice of this tall , elegant , nervous young woman with the veiled face . It was plain to all of them that she was expecting someone ; naturally it would be a man , therefore a lover . Her nervousness grew as the minutes lengthened into the hour . A clock in a tower near by struck one .