midnight
cried Don Martin , fervently . `` The prayers of Beatriz will be registered in your behalf above -- prayers that will reach the Great Throne as easily from the open valleys of France as in the gloomy cloisters of Madrid . At midnight , to-morrow , then , we seek the house you have described to us . '' `` Ay , at midnight , all shall be prepared . '' With a light step and exulting heart , Fonseca turned from the palace of Calderon . Naturally sanguine and high-spirited , visions of hope and joy floated before his eyes , and the future seemed to him a land owning but the twin deities of Glory and Love . He had reached about the centre of the streets in which Calderon 's abode was placed , when six men , who for some moments had been watching him from a little distance , approached .