midnight
So that , on the evening as to which we are speaking , Fritz had quartered his hussars in his -- the upper -- shelf of these two , whilst Marie had put Miss Gertrude rather in a corner , established her new doll in the well-appointed chamber there , with all its appropriate furniture , and invited herself to tea and cakes with her . This chamber was splendidly furnished , everything on a first-rate scale , and in good and admirable style , as I have already said -- and I do n't know if you , my observant reader , have the satisfaction of possessing an equally well-appointed room for your dolls ; a little beautifully-flowered sofa , a number of the most charming little chairs , a nice little tea-table , and , above all , a beautiful little white bed , where your pretty darlings of dolls go to sleep ? All this was in a corner of the shelf , the walls of which , in this part , had beautiful little pictures hanging on them ; and you may well imagine that , in such a delightful chamber as this , the new doll -LRB- whose name , as Marie had discovered , was Miss Clara -RRB- thought herself extremely comfortably settled , and remarkably well off . `` It was getting very late , not so very far from midnight , indeed , before the children could tear themselves away from all these Yuletide fascinations , and Godpapa Drosselmeier had been gone a considerable time . They remained riveted beside the glass cupboard , although their mother several times reminded them that it was long after bedtime . ` Yes , ' said Fritz , ` I know well enough that these poor fellows -LRB- meaning his hussars -RRB- are tired enough , and awfully anxious to turn in for the night , though as long as I 'm here , not a man-jack of them dares to nod his head . ' With which he went off .