midnight
`` We will keep it up till morning , '' they cried . `` We have plenty of money now , there is no need to spare ! Drink , and do n't drink away your wits . '' And so at midnight , when they were all fairly fuddled , the woman ran off for vodka the third time , and the forester strode twice up and down the cottage , and he was staggering . `` Look here , lads , '' he said , `` we must make away with the girl , too ! If we leave her , she will be the first to bear witness against us . '' They talked it over and discussed it , and decided that Anyutka must not be left alive , that she must be killed .