midnight
`` You are very queer , '' said Catherine ; `` I fail to understand you . I do n't know how you have got your extraordinary knowledge about us . You talk like a lady , but ladies do n't starve with hunger , nor walk until they are travel-sore and spent . Ladies do n't hide at midnight in shrubberies , in private grounds that do n't belong to them . Then you say you have no money , and yet you gave Tester a shilling . '' `` I gave him my last shilling . Here is my empty purse .