midnight
That 's a natural ending for him ! Maps , sketches , and all will be ready for you at the place we agreed . It 's all lying ready to our hand , and ten minutes of a dark night is all I want . The old chap is always mooning alone in his study , till the midnight hours , over his books , and he has the whole ground floor to himself . The men are in the gardener 's house , ten rods away , and all the women sleep upstairs . He sees no one but a half crazy Yankee professor , who drops in of a morning . But , the shy bird keeps in her cage , and lives in great state , upstairs .