midnight
Dan Levy 's no fool at all , but the most magnificent knave I 've been up against yet . If you want to hear all about his tactics , come round to the Albany and I 'll open your eyes for you . '' His own were radiant with light and life , though he could not have closed them since his arrival at Charing Cross the night before . But midnight was his hour . Raffles was at his best when the stars of the firmament are at theirs ; not at Lord 's in the light of day , but at dead of night in the historic chambers to which we now repaired . Certainly he had a congenial subject in the celebrated Daniel , `` a villain after my own black heart , Bunny ! A foeman worthy of Excalibur itself . ''