midnight
After that , they broke the Sabbaths right along as fast as they turned up . It is the first wrong step that counts . Every Sunday they put in the whole day , after morning service , on inventions -- inventions of ways to spend the money . They got to continuing this delicious dissipation until past midnight ; and at every seance Aleck lavished millions upon great charities and religious enterprises , and Sally lavished like sums upon matters to which -LRB- at first -RRB- he gave definite names . Only at first . Later the names gradually lost sharpness of outline , and eventually faded into `` sundries , '' thus becoming entirely -- but safely -- undescriptive . For Sally was crumbling .