midnight
`` Mother at home , girl , or your missus ? '' `` Mother is , sir ; will you please to walk inside ? '' `` Put down the box , lad , and here 's your sixpence ; -- shameful charge to make ; why , in the part I come from , a bigger lad than you would have got no more for a whole day 's work ; but it 's my belief this London is made up of thieves and fools ! Here 's a staircase dark as midnight ! Why , they say country folks come to town to be _ enlightened _ -- but it does n't seem much like it ! Thieves and fools -- thieves and fools . Thieves to do the fools , and fools to be done by the thieves ! ''