11 in the evening
And ready at length , she walked nonchalantly out of the prison and into the waiting car which was to carry her to Vincennes . Now the end of all this is best told in the words of a young French soldier who was an eye witness and wrote the whole thing down . To pen the hideous horror I find too difficult a task . `` Sunday -- 11 in the evening . `` We had only returned at that moment from our day 's leave , when the Lieutenant came to us to announce that we should be of the _ piquet _ to-morrow morning for the execution of Madame Boleski , the spy . `` He said this to us in his monotonous voice as though he had been saying ` To-morrow -- _ Revue d'Armes _ ' -- but for us , after a whole day passed far from barracks , it was a rather brusque return to military realities ! `` At once it became necessary that we look through our accountrements for the show .