about 8 o'clock
Marguerite wished him `` Good night ; '' and at 8 o'clock found herself alone and mistress of her own actions . She might now have brought Charlie into the house , but that she remembered her Father 's prohibition of such a thing ; and at least she thought it best and fittest to leave him master in his own house , at the same time reserving to herself liberty to control her own actions . This was fair enough . At about 8 o'clock , as agreed on , Marguerite took her little lantern , and going round the path to where they had been standing two evenings before , she flashed the light three times trusting that Charlie would be able to see it . Meanwhile Jacques had come out from one of the mill sheds , where he had been concealed , and went quickly up to the room behind the granary , only pausing on his way to tell old Pierre that he was there . We will leave him waiting for his prey , with a dark sardonic smile on his ill-favoured countenance , and return to Marguerite , who is waiting in the granary for her lover , confident that `` all is well , '' and having no thoughts but pleasant ones concerning the coming meeting . Even the remembrance of Hirzel 's absence brings no disquietude with it .