midnight
Would to Heaven I had not yielded to your urgency ! The indecorum of compliance stared me in the face at the time . Too easily I yielded to the enchantments of those eyes , and the pleadings of that melting voice . The charms of your conversation ; the midnight hour whose security was heightened by the storm that raged without ; so perfectly screened from every interruption ; and the subject we had been talking on , so affecting and attractive to me , and so far from being exhausted , and you so pathetically earnest in entreaty , so absolutely forbidding my departure . And was I such a short-sighted fool as not to insist on your retiring at the usual hour ? The only thing that could make the expedient suggested by me effectual was that . Your Molly lying with you could avail you nothing , unless you actually passed the night in your chamber .