midnight
A question as to whether he had been right or not had come into his mind , and disturbed him to the very centre . WHEN Mr. Howland threatened his son with exclusion from the house , if he were away at ten o'clock , Andrew 's feelings were in a state of reaction against his father , and he said to himself , in a rebellious spirit -- `` We 'll see if you will . '' But after growing cooler , he came into a better state of mind ; and , in view of consequences such as he knew would be visited on him , decided not to come in contact with his father in this particular -- at least not for the present . If turned from his own door at midnight , where was he to find shelter ? This question he could not answer to his own satisfaction . After supper , on the evening succeeding that in which he had visited the theatre , Andrew left home and went to an engine-house in the neighborhood , where he joined about a dozen lads and young men as idle and aimless as himself . With these he spent an hour or two , entering into their vicious and debasing conversation , when a person with whom he had gone to see the play on the previous evening , proposed to him to go around to the theatre again .