midnight before
This morning , when she went out to do her shopping , she had not noticed whether the disused door did or did not look the same as usual . Grosjean was very sorry for his friend Tournefort , who appeared vastly upset , but still more sorry for himself , for he knew what endless trouble this would entail upon him . Nor was the trouble slow in coming , not only on Grosjean , but on every lodger inside the house ; for before half an hour had gone by Tournefort had gone and come back , this time with the local commissary of police and a couple of agents , who had every man , woman and child in that house out of bed and examined at great length , their identity books searchingly overhauled , their rooms turned topsy-turvy and their furniture knocked about . It was past midnight before all these perquisitions were completed . No one dared to complain at these indignities put upon peaceable citizens on the mere denunciation of an obscure police agent . These were times when every regulation , every command , had to be accepted without a murmur . At one o'clock in the morning , Grosjean himself was thankful to get back to bed , having satisfied the commissary that he was not a dangerous conspirator .