midnight
I went in with Pierre Caribou , and the squaw glided out of the cabin . There were two couches of the kind they used to call ottomans inside , which had evidently once formed part of the _ château _ furnishings for their faded splendour accorded little with the decrepit interior of the hut . I looked at my watch . I had thought it must be midnight , and it was only eight . Within three hours I had won Jacqueline and lost her forever . With Leroux in my power , I had yielded and gone away . And on the morrow I should arrive at Père Antoine 's hut just when he expected me .