midnight
`` Who are they , madame ? '' `` I know not , and I care not , '' she said . `` I meddle not with things that do not concern me . I come here now but to hear how you came to be on the streets at midnight . Had I been in the Governor 's place then , I would have shut the door in your face . '' I told her the truth , as it had happened to me ; and when she had heard it her brow lightened somewhat . `` Are you deceiving me ?