midnight
It was not necessary . The arraignment of the one and the defense of the other were sufficiently illuminating . Soundly the happy sleep . She did not hear the removal of Warrington 's luggage at midnight , for it was stealthily done . Neither did she hear the fretful mutter of the bird as his master disturbed his slumbers . Nothing warned her that he intended to spend the night on board ; that , having paid his bill early in the evening , her note might have lain in the key-box until the crack of doom , so far as he was likely to know of its existence . No angel of pity whispered to her , Awake !