midnight
He would not listen to her , or to reason in any shape . `` I am on the sea -- shall I trust a boat ? I stick to a ship , '' he said . The soldiers marched till midnight . It was arranged that the carriage should strike off for Schio at dawn . The soldiers bivouacked on the slope of one of the low undulations falling to the Vicentino plain . Vittoria spread her cloak , and lay under bare sky , not suffering the woman to be ejected from the carriage .