midnight
And young girls should get beauty sleep . Come to bed at once , '' said Madam Wetherill . But after all she admitted to herself that Primrose was not urgently in need of beauty sleep . Old Philadelphia had fallen into her midnight nap . Since Howe 's time there had been a more decorous rule , and the taverns closed early . There were no roystering soldiers flinging their money about and singing songs in King George 's honor , or ribald squibs about the rebels , and braggart rhymes as to what they would do with them by and by . Everything , this October night , was soft and silent .