midnight
The boisterous talk of some , the eager keen looks of others , jar on him equally . One minute he is absent , the next boisterous , then irritable , then moody . A college card-party is no place to-night for him . He loses his money , is disgusted at last , and gets to his own rooms by midnight ; goes to bed feverish , dissatisfied with himself , with all the world . The inexorable question pursues him even into the strange helpless land of dreams , demanding a decision , when he has no longer power of will to choose either good or evil . But how fared it all this time with the physician ? Alas !