midnight
`` Well , 't is the shorter of the two certainly , but at this season of the year the road is as hard as steel . It will be as well to provide my horses with fresh shoes . '' `` It is now ten o'clock . By midnight your coachman will have managed to do all that . The baroness would do well if she had a little sleep now . Meanwhile I will go home for my luggage and my weapons ; at two o'clock in the morning I shall be here again , and at three we can start . '' `` I will be awake and watching for you , and I thank you with all my heart . ''