midnight
I had hardly been with him a month when he died , leaving his daughter mistress of all his wealth , and free to do what she liked with it . To my surprise , Aurora then began to distinguish me from all the other servants . I could see by the way she looked at me that there was something about me that attracted her . Great ladies , I knew , sometimes fall in love with their lackeys , and one evening my hopes were raised to the highest pitch ; for Aurora 's maid then whispered to me that somebody would like to talk to me alone at midnight in the garden . Full of wild impatience , I arrived at the spot two hours before the time . Oh , those two hours ! They seemed two eternities .