about midnight
`` One night last winter I was lying in bed thinking about nothing at all in particular . I had been posing for you and I was tired out , yet it seemed impossible for me to sleep . I heard the bells in the city ring ten , eleven , and midnight . I must have fallen asleep about midnight because I do n't remember hearing the bells after that . It seemed to me that I had scarcely closed my eyes when I dreamed that something impelled me to go to the window . I rose , and raising the sash leaned out . Twenty-fifth Street was deserted as far as I could see .