midnight
`` So you are my fair friend whom I saw in the dark ? '' he said . `` Yes , I recognise your voice now . You are Miss Chris -- well , I wo n't mention the name aloud , because people might ask what a well-regulated corpse meant by rousing respectable people up at midnight . I hope you are not going to get me into trouble again . '' `` No , but I am going to ask your advice and assistance . I want you to be so good as to give me the plot of a story after I have told you the details .