midnight
His look was angry -- severe enough for boys caught card-playing , or drinking , or reading something that was not divinity on a Sunday . Gibbie had absented himself without permission , had stayed away for hours , had not returned even when the hour of worship arrived ; and these were sins against the respectability of his house which no minister like Mr. Sclater could pass by . It mattered nothing what they were doing ! it was all one when it got to midnight ! then it became revelling , and was sinful and dangerous , vulgar and ungentlemanly , giving the worst possible example to those beneath them ! What could their landlady think ? -- the very first night ?