midnight
At length Jan struck Skager across the mouth , and Skager instantly drew his knife . In a moment Torr and others had separated the men . Skager was persuaded to leave the house , and Jan , partly by force and partly by entreaty , detained . Skager was to sail at midnight , and Torr was determined that Jan should not leave the house until that hour was passed . Long before it , he appeared to have forgotten the quarrel , to be indeed too intoxicated to remember any thing . Torr was satisfied , but his daughter Suneva was not . About ten o'clock , Snorro , sitting in the back door of the store , saw Suneva coming swiftly towards him .