About midnight
`` Do n't be alarmed , '' said that strong-minded lady : `` it is only one of the old fool 's composing draughts . It will spoil the poor boy 's sleep for one night , that is all . Go to him the first thing in the morning . '' About midnight Alfred was seized with a violent headache and fever : towards morning he was light-headed , and Brown found him loud and incoherent : only he returned often to an expression Mr. Brown had never heard before -- `` Justifiable parricide . Justifiable parricide . Justifiable patricide . '' Most people dislike new phrases .