eight o'clock
Since Raoul confessed himself guilty , he should be punished . Bathilde did not remember that half of this punishment recoiled upon herself . The effect of the letter , incomplete as it was , was such that when Buvat returned from the terrace he thought Bathilde looked infinitely better , and began to believe what she herself had told him in the morning , that her agitation was only caused by the emotion of the day before . Buvat went to his own room at eight o'clock , leaving Bathilde free to retire at any hour she liked , but she had not the least inclination to sleep ; for a long time she watched , contented and happy , for she knew that her neighbor 's window was open , and by this she guessed his anxiety . Bathilde at length dreamed that Raoul was at her feet , and that he gave her such good reasons that it was she , in her turn , who asked for pardon . Thus in the morning she awoke convinced that she had been dreadfully severe , and wondering how she could have had the courage to do so . It followed that her first movement was to run to the window and open it ; but perceiving , through an almost imperceptible opening , the young man at his window , she stopped short .