midnight
`` Not just that . Jamie begged her to go away with him , and the lassie would have gone if I had n't got between her and the door . I had a hard few minutes , I can tell you , Sabrina ; for when men are beside themselves with passion , they are in the devil 's employ , and it 's no easy work to take a job out of _ his _ hands . But I sent Jamie flying down the cliff , and I locked the door and put the key in my pocket , and ordered Andrew and Christina off to their beds , and thought I would leave the rest of the business till the next day ; but before midnight Andrew was raving , and the affair was out of my hands altogether . '' `` It is a wonder Christina did not go after her lad . '' `` What are you talking about , Sabrina ? It would have been a world 's wonder and a black , burning shame if my girl had gone after her lad in such a calamitous time .