midnight
But I did not realise all this when I came to London , did not perceive how the change of atmosphere began at once to warp and distribute my energies . In the first place I became invisible . If I idled for a day , no one except my fellow-students -LRB- who evidently had no awe for me -RRB- remarked it . No one saw my midnight taper ; no one pointed me out as I crossed the street as an astonishing intellectual phenomenon . In the next place I became inconsiderable . In Wimblehurst I felt I stood for Science ; nobody there seemed to have so much as I and to have it so fully and completely . In London I walked ignorant in an immensity , and it was clear that among my fellow-students from the midlands and the north I was ill-equipped and under-trained .