one o'clock in the morning
Above all , did not this conclusion explain at once all those things in her conduct which had so much disturbed him during the past week ? What was this story of Faustina Montevarchi 's disappearance ? The girl was probably Corona 's innocent accomplice . Corona had left the house at one o'clock in the morning with Gouache . The porter had not seen any other woman . The fact that she had entered the Palazzo Montevarchi with Faustina and without Anastase proved nothing , except that she had met the young girl somewhere else , it mattered little where . The story that Faustina had accidentally shut herself into a room in the palace was an invention , for even Corona admitted the fact .