midnight
All former delights of turf , mess , hunting-field , and gambling-table ; all previous loves and courtships of milliners , opera-dancers , and the like easy triumphs of the clumsy military Adonis , were quite insipid when compared to the lawful matrimonial pleasures which of late he had enjoyed . She had known perpetually how to divert him ; and he had found his house and her society a thousand times more pleasant than any place or company which he had ever frequented from his childhood until now . And he cursed his past follies and extravagances , and bemoaned his vast outlying debts above all , which must remain for ever as obstacles to prevent his wife 's advancement in the world . He had often groaned over these in midnight conversations with Rebecca , although as a bachelor they had never given him any disquiet . He himself was struck with this phenomenon . `` Hang it , '' he would say -LRB- or perhaps use a still stronger expression out of his simple vocabulary -RRB- , `` before I was married I did n't care what bills I put my name to , and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months , I kept on never minding . But since I 'm married , except renewing , of course , I give you my honour I 've not touched a bit of stamped paper . ''