midnight
`` Take good care of the horses . I will shortly write you what you are to do . '' The train rapidly carried the fugitives away , not toward Seville , but to Lisbon . At midnight , the _ caballero _ having stepped out a moment , came back with a look of annoyance , saying that he had made a mistake , that they ought to have changed cars farther back . The girl was stupefied and dismayed . `` Do n't be so much alarmed , dear . Now instead of staying in some large town on this side where they might get knowledge of us by telegraph , it would be better for us to go into Portugal , and from there go directly to Seville . ''