midnight
`` Can you understand what has happened to Peter ? He never came home last night ! '' she said , in distress . `` Lots of boys roam about the streets all night , but Peter has never been like that , and I kept his supper warm till midnight . I thought perhaps he 'd got into bad company . '' Pelle showed her _ The Working Man _ . In a little while the inmates of the `` Ark '' would see the report and come rushing up with it .