midnight
She met her in front of her house , for she , too , had been turned out of doors by her landlord . He had just had a padlock affixed to her door -- quite illegally , of course , seeing that she had her own furniture . She swore and talked of having him up before the commissary of police . In the meantime , as midnight was striking , they had to begin thinking of finding a bed . And Satin , deeming it unwise to let the plain-clothes men into her secrets , ended by taking Nana to a woman who kept a little hotel in the Rue de Laval . Here they were assigned a narrow room on the first floor , the window of which opened on the courtyard . Satin remarked : `` I should gladly have gone to Mme Robert 's .