seven o’clock
He would see her , explain to her that he must leave Paris immediately , and beg her to make her preparations quickly , so that she might meet him as soon as maybe , and accompany him to England straight away . He did not feel that he was being disloyal by trying to see Jeanne . He had thrown prudence to the winds , not realising that his imprudence would and did jeopardise , not only the success of his chief 's plans , but also his life and that of his friends . He had before parting from Hastings last night arranged to meet him in the neighbourhood of the Neuilly Gate at seven o'clock ; it was only six now . There was plenty of time for him to rouse the concierge at the house of the Square du Roule , to see Jeanne for a few moments , to slip into Madame Belhomme 's kitchen , and there into the labourer 's clothes which he was carrying in the bundle under his arm , and to be at the gate at the appointed hour . The Square du Roule is shut off from the Rue St. Honore , on which it abuts , by tall iron gates , which a few years ago , when the secluded little square was a fashionable quarter of the city , used to be kept closed at night , with a watchman in uniform to intercept midnight prowlers . Now these gates had been rudely torn away from their sockets , the iron had been sold for the benefit of the ever-empty Treasury , and no one cared if the homeless , the starving , or the evil-doer found shelter under the porticoes of the houses , from whence wealthy or aristocratic owners had long since thought it wise to flee .