eight o'clock
Stolid as these poor creatures who live by the services that they render to the dead generally are , when they saw the young girl so beautiful , so adorned , so pale , they could not help feeling an emotion unknown to them until then . They trembled as they took the sheets from Helen 's hands and asked her to withdraw while they fulfilled their funeral office . Helen uncovered Karl 's face , over which the two Ministers of Fate had already thrown the shroud , kissed his lips , murmured into his ear some words that the women did not hear , then , addressing one of them , said : `` I am going to pray for my husband in the Church of Notre Dame de la Croix . If between now and eight o'clock a young man named Benedict comes here , please give him this note . '' She drew from her bosom a paper already folded , sealed , and addressed to Benedict , and went away . The storm was roaring in all its violence . At the door she found Lenhart 's carriage and Lenhart himself .