eleven
o'clock
It was a one-storied house , with a stone gallery , on which the servants ' attics opened , and surmounted by a low tilted roof . Under the first-floor windows was a large balcony which jutted out three or four feet , and extended right across the house ; but some iron ornaments , similar to the balcony , and which reached to the terrace , separated the two windows on each side from the three in the center , as is often done when it is desired to interrupt exterior communications . The two facades were exactly similar , only , as the Rue de Valois was eight or ten feet lower than that of the Bons Enfants , the ground-floor windows and door opened on a terrace , where was a little garden , filled in spring with charming flowers , but which did not communicate with the street , the only entrance being , as we have said , in the Rue des Bons Enfants . This was all our conspirators could wish ; the regent , once entered into Madame de Sabran 's house , would -- provided he stayed after eleven o'clock , which was probable -- be taken as in a trap , and nothing would be easier than to carry out their plan in the Rue des Bons Enfants , one of the most deserted and gloomy places in the neighborhood ; moreover , as this street was surrounded by very suspicious houses , and frequented by very bad company , it was a hundred to one that they would not pay any attention to cries which were too frequent in that street to cause any uneasiness , and that if the watch arrived , it would be , according to the custom of that estimable force , long after their intervention could be of any avail . The inspection of the ground finished , the plans laid , and the number of the house taken , they separated ; the abbe to go to the Arsenal to give Madame de Maine an account of the proceedings , and D'Harmental to return to his attic . As on the preceding night , Bathilde 's room was lighted , but this time the young girl was not drawing but working ; her light was not put out till one o'clock in the morning . As to the good man , he had retired long before D'Harmental returned .