midnight
Hugh , the country is in a worse state than I had supposed , and we ought not to leave the ladies here an hour after to-morrow ! '' As the ladies who came within my uncle 's category , did not include Mary Warren , I did not take exactly the same view of the subject as he did himself . Nothing further was said on the subject , however ; and shortly after each shouldered his rifle , and retired to his own room . It was past midnight when I reached my apartment , but I felt no inclination for sleep . That had been an important day to me , one full of excitement , and I was still too much under the influence of its circumstances to think of my bed . There was soon a profound silence in the house , the closing of doors and the sound of footsteps having ceased , and I went to a window , to gaze on the scene without . There was a three-quarters ' moon , which gave light enough to render all the nearer objects of the landscape distinctly visible .