the midnight march
`` Yet , '' I said , presently , `` you were a spy upon me ! '' `` I was , God pity me ! Scourge me with rough words as you will ; I merit every blow ! '' `` And you came here to see La Chatre , '' I went on , `` perhaps because you feared discovery , perhaps because you thought your work of betrayal was done '' -LRB- for I thought that she may have known of the midnight march of the governor 's troops -RRB- , `` perhaps to finish that work ! '' `` Now you wrong me at last ! '' she cried . `` Thank God , I am not as bad as you can think me ! ''