midnight
`` Still falling ! '' he muttered . `` I will keep on until seven o'clock and then bear three points to the southward . By midnight we should be behind it . '' He struggled back into the outside fury . By comparison the sturdy citadel he quitted was Paradise on the edge of an inferno . Down in the saloon the hardier passengers were striving to subdue the ennui of an interval before they sought their cabins .