twelve o’clock at night
Vaucheray ruled us . I agreed to meet Daubrecq at the theatre . During this time the thing took place . When I came home , at twelve o'clock at night , I heard the terrible result : Leonard murdered , my son arrested . I at once received an intuition of the future . Daubrecq 's appalling prophecy was being realized : it meant trial and sentence . And this through my fault , through the fault of me , the mother , who had driven my son toward the abyss from which nothing could extricate him now . ''