midnight
It has been urged that I did this deed in cold blood . It was between three and four o'clock in the afternoon when I had a quarrel with Wilson and he struck me down . My servants have given testimony to the fact that I came home , talked with my mother , went into my study , stayed there for several hours . Then it is urged that I went out , carrying this knife with me ; and , mark you , they did not see the knife in the house , no one saw me take it away from the office ; but it is urged that I went out , after several hours ' cool and calculated thought , at midnight ; that I caught the murdered man unawares , drove the knife into his body , and then ran away and left it there . Now , think of this , gentlemen , and remember that my life or death depends upon the reasonableness of it , depends upon this link in the chain of circumstantial evidence . It has been urged again and again that whatever I am , I am not a fool , that I am capable of careful and connected thought , that I commenced my career in Brunford in a very small way , and that in a few years I have made it to be what it is , large and prosperous . It has been urged that I am far-seeing , careful , calculating , and that as a rule I am not a man who acts upon sudden impulses .