midnight
He touched the elbow , showed a flitting face of crazed amazement in amusement , and shrugged and half-laughed , dismissing the incident , as being perhaps , if his hearer chose to have it so , a gem of the rubbish tumbled into the dustcart out of a rather exceptional householder 's experience . Fenellan smiled indulgently . ` Queer things happen . I recollect reading in my green youth of a clergyman , who mounted a pulpit of the port where he was landed after his almost solitary rescue from a burning ship at midnight in mid-sea , to inform his congregation , that he had overnight of the catastrophe a personal Warning right in his ear from a Voice , when at his bed or bunk-side , about to perform the beautiful ceremony of undressing : and the Rev. gentleman was to lie down in his full uniform , not so much as to relieve himself of his boots , the Voice insisted twice ; and he obeyed it , despite the discomfort to his poor feet ; and he jumped up in his boots to the cry of Fire , and he got them providentially over the scuffling deck straight at the first rush into the boat awaiting them , and had them safe on and polished the day he preached the sermon of gratitude for the special deliverance . There was a Warning ! and it might well be called , as he called it , from within . We 're cared for , never doubt .