two hours after midnight
The Englishman I shall put in irons and lock up inside the chapel , with five men under the command of your corporal to guard him , the other two I will drive myself straight to Crecy with what is left of the escort . You understand ? '' `` Yes , citizen . '' `` We may not reach Crecy until two hours after midnight , but directly I arrive I will send citizen Chauvelin further reinforcements , which , however , I hope may not necessary , but which will reach him in the early morning . Even if he is seriously attacked , he can , with fourteen men he will have with him , hold out inside the castle through the night . Tell him also that at dawn two prisoners who will be with me will be shot in the courtyard of the guard-house at Crecy , but that whether he has got hold of Capet or not he had best pick up the Englishman in the chapel in the morning and bring him straight to Crecy , where I shall be awaiting him ready to return to Paris . You understand ? ''