midnight
` I 'm thinking , sir , ' said Tregarva , as they walked slowly and reluctantly away , ` that it is hard of the gentlemen to leave all God 's work to the ladies , as nine-tenths of them do . ' ` And I am thinking , Tregarva , that both for ladies and gentlemen , prevention is better than cure . ' ` There 's a great change come over Miss Argemone , sir . She used not to be so ready to start out at midnight to visit dying folk . A blessed change ! ' Lancelot thought so too , and he thought that he knew the cause of it . Argemone 's appearance , and their late conversation , had started a new covey of strange fancies .