midnight
Great indeed : and known but to her of all the outer world . She was ahead of all -- ahead of Mr. Tonans ! The visionary figure of Mr. Tonans petrified by the great news , drinking it , and confessing her ahead of him in the race for secrets , arose toweringly . She had not ever seen the Editor in his den at midnight . With the rumble of his machinery about him , and fresh matter arriving and flying into the printing-press , it must be like being in the very furnace-hissing of Events : an Olympian Council held in Vulcan 's smithy . Consider the bringing to the Jove there news of such magnitude as to stupefy him ! He , too , who had admonished her rather sneeringly for staleness in her information .