one o'clock in the morning
`` However , '' said Georgette , `` if one wished to speak ill of -- '' `` Do you dare ! '' `` No longer ago than last night , at half past eleven o'clock -- '' `` Last night ? '' `` A four-wheeler , '' continued Georgette , `` stopped at a few paces from the house . A mysterious personage , wrapped up in a cloak , alighted from it , and directly tapped , not at the door , but on the glass of the porter 's lodge window ; and at one o'clock in the morning , the cab was still stationed in the street , waiting for the mysterious personage in the cloak , who , doubtless , during all that time , was , as you say , pronouncing the name of her Highness the Princess on his knees . '' Whether Mrs. Grivois had not been instructed as to a visit made to the Princess Saint-Dizier by Rodin -LRB- for he was the man in the cloak -RRB- , in the middle of the night , after he had become certain of the arrival in Paris of General Simon 's daughters ; or whether Mrs. Grivois thought it necessary to appear ignorant of the visit , she replied , shrugging her shoulders disdainfully : `` I know not what you , mean , madame . I have not come here to listen to your impertinent stuff . Once again I ask you -- will you , or will you not , introduce me to the presence of Miss Adrienne ? ''