midnight
After a pause Laflamme said : `` She will not come here again , Carbourd ? No ? Ah , well , perhaps it is better so ; but I should have liked to speak my thanks to her . '' That night Marie sat by the window of the sitting-room , with the light burning , and Angers asleep in a chair beside her -- sat till long after midnight , in the thought that Laflamme , if he had reached the Cave , would , perhaps , dare something to see her and bid her good-bye . She would of course have told him not to come , but he was chivalrous , and then her blindness would touch him . Yet as the hours went by the thought came : was he , was he so chivalrous ? was he altogether true ?