midnight
-LRB- 4 . -RRB- He had a minute acquaintance with the ways of the Manderson household . -LRB- 5 . -RRB- He was under a vital necessity of creating the belief that Manderson was alive and in that house until some time after midnight on the Sunday night . So much I took as either certain or next door to it . It was as far as I could see . And it was far enough .