about midnight
Articles of furniture began to fall about , and it became needful to lash them to their places ; the passengers grew sicker than ever ; Miss Fanshawe declared , with groans , that she must die . `` Not just yet , honey , '' said the stewardess . `` We 're just in port . '' Accordingly , in another quarter of an hour , a calm fell upon us all ; and about midnight the voyage ended . I was sorry : yes , I was sorry . My resting-time was past ; my difficulties -- my stringent difficulties -- recommenced . When I went on deck , the cold air and black scowl of the night seemed to rebuke me for my presumption in being where I was : the lights of the foreign sea-port town , glimmering round the foreign harbour , met me like unnumbered threatening eyes .