midnight
This moment in the market-place left in their souls a well-spring of passionate feeling . Sylvie , who did not recognize the Breton accent , took no notice of Brigaut , and Pierrette went home safely with her treasure . The letters of these two poor children were fated to serve as documents in a terrible judicial inquiry ; otherwise , without the fatal circumstances that occasioned that inquiry , they would never have been heard of . Here is the one which Pierrette read that night in her chamber : -- My dear Pierrette , -- At midnight , when everybody is asleep but me , who am watching you , I will come every night under your window . Let down a string long enough to reach me ; it will not make any noise ; you must fasten to the end of it whatever you write to me . I will tie my letter in the same way . I hear _ they _ have taught you to read and write , -- those wicked relations who were to do you good , and have done you so much harm .