midnight
It rotted leather ; and spread mould on boots and clothes . It made matches unstrikeable . It drenched Geoffrey 's bed with perspiration , and drove away sleep . It sent him out on long midnight walks through the silent city in an atmosphere as stifling as that of a green-house . It beat down upon Tokyo its fetid exhalations , the smell of cooking , of sewage and of humanity , and the queer sickly scent of a powerful evergreen tree aflower throughout the city , which resembled the reek of that Nagasaki brothel , and recalled the dancing of the _ Chonkina _ . It bred swarms of bloodthirsty mosquitoes from every drop of stagnant water . They found their way through the musty mosquito-net which separated his bed from Asako 's .