midnight
But we will not give an account of his thoughts , and this is not the place to look into that soul -- its turn will come . And even if one tried , it would be very hard to give an account of them , for there were no thoughts in his brain , but something very vague , and , above all , intense excitement . He felt himself that he had lost his bearings . He was fretted , too , by all sorts of strange and almost surprising desires ; for instance , after midnight he suddenly had an intense irresistible inclination to go down , open the door , go to the lodge and beat Smerdyakov . But if he had been asked why , he could not have given any exact reason , except perhaps that he loathed the valet as one who had insulted him more gravely than any one in the world . On the other hand , he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror , which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers . His head ached and he was giddy .