midnight
Here is money to pay for your living and your work . Watch well and closely . Know every movement that the Queen makes , and every day inform me by word or in writing of all her actions . On the fourth day from now come here an hour before midnight . Now go . '' He counted out five sovereigns to Pent-Ah . Their glitter contrasted strangely with the shabby squalor of the room and the poverty of his own dress , but he gave them as though they had been coppers .