midnight
` What do you mean , then , to do with her , ' cried La Chouette , ` since she must be concealed somewhere for two months , so that no one may know where she is ? ' ` There 's a way , ' said the Schoolmaster . ` We are going by the Champs Elysées ; we will stop the coach a little way off the guard-house , and you shall go to Bras Rouge 's tavern . It is midnight , and you will be sure to find him ; bring him here , and he shall lead La Goualeuse to the guard-house , declaring that she is a _ fille de la Cité _ , whom he has found loitering about his house . As girls are sentenced to three months ' imprisonment if found in the Champs Elysées , and as La Goualeuse is still on the police books , she will be apprehended and sent to St. Lazare , where she will be better taken care of and concealed than in Bras Rouge 's cellar . ' ` But , ' answered La Chouette , ` Goualeuse will not allow herself to be arrested even at the _ corps-de-garde _ . She will declare that we have carried her off , and give information against us ; and , supposing even that she goes to prison , she will write to her protectors , and all will be discovered . '