about seven o'clock
`` Her answer to G -- M -- was brief , merely assuring him that she could be , without the least difficulty , in Paris on the appointed day and that he might expect her with certainty . `` We then resolved , that I should instantly hire lodgings in some village on the other side of Paris , and that I should take our luggage with me ; that in the afternoon of the following day , which was the time appointed , she should go to Paris ; that , after receiving G -- M -- 's presents , she should earnestly entreat him to take her to the theatre ; that she should carry with her as large a portion of the money as she could , and charge my servant with the remainder , for it was agreed that he was to accompany her . He was the man who had rescued her from the Magdalen , and he was devotedly attached to us . I was to be with a hackney-coach at the end of the street of St. Andre-des-arcs , and to leave it there about seven o'clock , while I stole , under cover of the twilight , to the door of the theatre . Manon promised to make some excuse for quitting her box for a moment , when she would come down and join me . The rest could be easily done . We were then to return to my hackney-coach , and quit Paris by the Faubourg St. Antoine , which was the road to our new residence .