midnight
`` About Norman ? Oh , papa ! Did he tell you ? '' `` When I came home from the hospital last night , at an hour when all respectable characters , except doctors and police , should be in their warm beds , I beheld a light in Norman 's window , so methought I would see what Gravity was doing out of his bed at midnight -- '' `` And you found him at his Greek -- '' `` So that was the meaning of his looking so lank and careworn , just as he did last year , and he the prince of the school ! I could have found it in my heart to fling the books at his head ! '' `` But you consent , do n't you , to his going up for the scholarship ? '' `` I consent to anything , as long as he keeps within due bounds , and does not work himself to death .