midnight
inquired the Greek . `` At holy baptism , father , the name Urban was given me . '' `` Urban , my brother , hast thou time to talk with me freely ? '' `` Our work begins at midnight , and only now are they preparing our supper . '' `` Then there is time sufficient . Let us go to the river ; there thou wilt hear my words . '' They went , and sat on the embankment , in a silence broken only by the distant sound of the millstones and the plash of the onflowing river .