midnight
`` Yes , we all make an outcry about acting humanely , but we are not capable of heroism , of fine actions . `` What sort of heroism ? This sort . Consider : in the existing relations of the various members of society , for me , for me , after midnight to go in to the wedding of my subordinate , a registration clerk , at ten roubles the month -- why , it would mean embarrassment , a revolution , the last days of Pompeii , a nonsensical folly . No one would understand it . Stepan Nikiforovitch would die before he understood it . Why , he said we should break down .