midnight
Mr. Trevannion had so many directions to give , and kept me so wholly with him , that I could hardly find time to speak to his daughter . However , it was agreed that as I was to sail at daylight , that she would see me after her father had gone to bed . Our meeting took place -- need I say that it was a tender one . We renewed our vows over and over again , and it was not till past midnight that I tore myself away . Old Humphrey looked very knowingly at me when he let me out of the street-door . I slipped a guinea in his hand and wished him good-bye . I hastened on board of the Sparrow-Hawk , and desiring to be called before daylight , went down into the cabin .