midnight
`` I 'll be only too glad to tell you all I know , sir , '' replied the boy promptly . `` When did it happen ? '' began the constable , with the air of a famous lawyer , with a bewildered witness on the rack . `` I think it was somewhere near midnight . I have no watch , and Mrs. Peake took the little clock in her room with her . '' `` That was near the time . It was half-past one when I went back to my bed with my two little girls , '' remarked the owner of the house .