midnight
`` Yes , English poetry , '' I said . `` But the trouble of which I speak was caused by an English newspaper . '' He continued to stare at me . I do n't think he was aware that the story of the midnight arrest had been ferreted out by an English journalist and given to the world . When I explained this to him he muttered contemptuously , `` It may have been altogether a lie . '' `` I should think you are the best judge of that , '' I retorted , a little disconcerted . `` I must confess that to me it looks to be true in the main . ''