midnight
There are times in life when from the imagination , and not the reason , should wisdom come , -- this for you is one of them . I ask not your answer now . Collect your thoughts , recover your jaded and scattered spirits . It wants two hours of midnight : at midnight I will be with you ! '' `` Incomprehensible being , '' replied the Englishman , `` I would leave the life you have preserved in your own hands . But since I have known you , my whole nature has changed . A fiercer desire than that of love burns in my veins , -- the desire , not to resemble , but to surpass my kind ; the desire to penetrate and to share the secret of your own existence ; the desire of a preternatural knowledge and unearthly power .