midnight
How can money be made anyhow but in an honest shop ? And to-morrow I shall have no shop , and we shall all go into the street together ! '' Presently , when lamentations had yielded to despair , they persuaded him to go to bed . It was past midnight . Iris went upstairs with him , while Lala Roy and Arnold waited down below . And then Arnold made a great discovery . He began to examine the folded papers which were in the packet .