midnight
When I heard of the -- the misfortune , and of your folly in remaining , I instantly planned a last meeting for you . As it fell out , my wife has a fancy to spend the night here : I have asked her to bring her sister with her . But this inconceivably desperate plan of leaving in your ship , in broad light of day , frustrates all I would have done for you . For God 's sake let us contrive some way of warning the _ Peregrine _ off till midnight ; keep hidden , yourself ; do not wilfully run your head into the noose ! '' But the young man had stopped short in his tramping , and stood looking at his friend , with a light of hope flaming in his eye . `` You have done that , Adrian ! You have thought of that ! ''