midnight
`` Alas ! perfectly . '' `` After that the indications of evil disappear . Now if we could only succeed in preventing Hadrian observing the heavens merely during the third hour after midnight we should preserve him from trouble and anxiety , which will torment and spoil his life . Who knows whether the stars may not be ? But even if they tell the truth , misfortune , when it does come , always comes much too soon . Do you agree with me ? ''