midnight
I told you that we Mervyns had bad nerves ; and I am rather tired . That 's all . '' I was too passionately determined just then upon happiness , and his was too necessary to mine for me not to believe that he was speaking the truth . We kept up the dancing till Lucy discovered with a shock that midnight had struck , and that Sunday had begun , and we were all sent off to bed . I was not long in making my nightly preparations , and had scarcely inserted myself between the sheets when , with a few long moans , the wind began again , more violently even than the night before . It had been a calm , fine day , and I made wise reflections as I listened upon the uncertainty of the north-country climate . What a tempest it was !