nine o'clock
You know what wild doings go on at Bigot 's chateau out at Charlesbourg ; or , again , in the storm of yesterday he may have been lost . You see , there are the hundred chances ; so I determined not to trust wholly to him . There was one other way -- to seek the Governor myself , open my heart to him , and beg for a reprieve . To-night at nine o'clock -- it is now six , Robert -- we go to the Chateau St. Louis , my mother and my father and I , to sup with the Governor . Oh , think what I must endure , to face them with this awful shadow on me ! If no word come of the reprieve before that hour , I shall make my own appeal to the Governor . It may ruin me , but it may save you ; and that done , what should I care for the rest ?