midnight
`` M. de Cante-Croix had an adored mother ; but to win a letter from me , and the words , ` I am satisfied , ' he fell in the thick of the fight . And now , when I ask you to take a journey with me , you can not think of giving up a wedding dinner for my sake . '' Lucien was ready to kill himself ; his desperation was so unfeigned , that Louise forgave him , though at the same time she made him feel that he must redeem his mistake . `` Come , come , '' she said , `` be discreet , and to-morrow at midnight be upon the road , a hundred paces out of Mansle . '' Lucien felt the globe shrink under his feet ; he went back to David 's house , hopes pursuing him as the Furies followed Orestes , for he had glimmerings of endless difficulties , all summed up in the appalling words , `` Where is the money to come from ? '' He stood in such terror of David 's perspicacity , that he locked himself into his pretty new study until he could recover himself , his head was swimming in this new position . So he must leave the rooms just furnished for him at such a cost , and all the sacrifices that had been made for him had been made in vain .