midnight
Would Suzette , in her anxiety over my absence , remember to give her the saucer of warm milk ? Yet I knew the Essence of Selfishness would take care of herself ; she would sleep with Suzette . Catch her lying out on the bare ground like her master when she could curl herself up at the foot of two fuzzy blankets in a tiny room next to the warm kitchen . * * * * * It was after midnight when Pierre crawled over to me again , and pointed to a black patch of mussel rocks below . `` There are the two men Gaston saw , '' he whispered . `` They are waiting to signal the channel to their comrades . '' I strained my eyes in the direction he indicated .