ten minutes past one
`` Only the agent of the French Government , M. Chauvelin , equally fast asleep in another corner , '' he said . `` Why does your ladyship ask ? '' `` I know not ... I ... Did you notice the time when you were there ? '' `` It must have been about five or ten minutes past one ... . I wonder what your ladyship is thinking about , '' he added , for evidently the fair lady 's thoughts were very far away , and she had not been listening to his intellectual conversation . But indeed her thoughts were not very far away : only one storey below , in this same house , in the dining-room where sat Chauvelin still on the watch . Had he failed ?