midnight
We filled it up at once with cold , and the saucepan cracked . So we cleaned it and put it back on the shelf and took another and went to bed . You see what a lot of trouble we had over the pudding . Every evening till Christmas , which had now become only the day after to-morrow , we sneaked down in the inky midnight and boiled that pudding for as long as it would . On Christmas morning we chopped the holly for the sauce , but we put hot water -LRB- instead of brandy -RRB- and moist sugar . Some of them said it was not so bad . Oswald was not one of these .