midnight
We must seek the fuse that touched off this hideous turbulence . Alarums And Excursions By Night . We are going into a lady 's bedroom , but I promise you the thing shall be nicely done : there shall not be a blush . It was midnight when Bill Wyvern projected the scheme whose execution we have followed through sweetness to disaster . Two hours earlier the Marrapit household had sought its beds . It was Mr. Marrapit 's wise rule that each member of his establishment should pass before him as he or she sought their chambers . Night is the hour when the thoughts take on unbridled licence ; and he would send his household to sleep each with some last admonition to curb fantastic wanderings of the mind .