midnight
He could hear the beatings of his heart . He reached the upper level of the town , he knew not how . All lay quiet as he found his way among the familiar buildings . It was after midnight ; most of the lamps had been extinguished . The streets were deserted . He heard , in the distance , the song of a drunken wayfarer reeling homewards from a tavern or from the Club . In one of the little roadways that converge upon the market-place something was astir .