midnight
It is not a matter for the officers of justice , for law , for scandal ; the service is to be done in secret , by friends , by kinsmen ; for the danger that threatens Darrell -- stoop -- stoop , Colonel Morley -- close in your ear '' ; and into his ear she hissed , `` for the danger that threatens Darrell in his house this night is from the man whose name his daughter bore . That is why I come to you . To you I need not say , ` Spare his life -- Jasper Losely 's life . ' Jasper Losely 's death as a midnight robber would be Darrell 's intolerable shame . Quick , quick , quick ! -- come , come ! ''