midnight
`` Then why is this pretended Mademoiselle de Nevers not here ? '' Lagardere replied , composedly : `` She is to be here at midnight . '' Gonzague looked at his watch . `` It is midnight now -- she is not here . Your majesty sees the worth of this man 's word . '' Louis gazed curiously at Lagardere , whose bearing , in spite of the king 's prejudices as a friend of Gonzague , impressed him as that of an honest man . `` Had you not better send for this lady ? ''