two o'clock
Then Raoul confessed to her his fears , and that the papers which the pretended Prince de Listhnay had given Buvat to copy were politically important , by which he might have been compromised and arrested , but had nothing to fear , and that the passive part which he had played in this affair did not endanger him in the least . Bathilde , having feared some much greater misfortune , eagerly seized on this idea . She did not confess to herself that the greater part of her uneasiness was not for Buvat , and that all the tears she shed were not for the absent . When D'Harmental was near Bathilde , time appeared to fly ; he was astonished when he found that he had been with her an hour and a half , and remembering that at two o'clock he had to arrange his new treaty with Roquefinette , he rose to go . Bathilde turned pale . D'Harmental , to reassure her , promised to come to her again after the departure of the person he expected . The chevalier had only been a few minutes at his window when he saw Roquefinette appear at the corner of the Rue Montmartre .