midnight
`` I know only the unfortunate , '' said Monsieur Alain . `` I do not desire to know a world in which men are so little afraid of judging one another . But see ! it is almost midnight , and I still have my chapter of the ` Imitation of Jesus Christ ' to meditate upon ! Good-night ! '' Godefroid took the old man 's hand and pressed it , with an expression of admiration . `` Can you tell me Madame de la Chanterie 's history ? ''