midnight
We should not have been astonished had he said on board his balloon . Down through thick fog of a lighter colour , we made our way to a narrow lane leading to the river-side , where two men stood thumping their arms across their breasts , smoking pipes , and swearing . We entered a boat and were rowed to a ship . I was not aware how frozen and befogged my mind and senses had become until I had taken a desperate and long gulp of smoking rum-and-water , and then the whole of our adventures from morning to midnight , with the fir-trees in the country fog , and the lamps in the London fog , and the man who had lost his son , the fire , the Bench , the old woman with her fowl-like cry and limbs in the air , and the row over the misty river , swam flashing before my eyes , and I cried out to the two girls , who were drinking out of one glass with the sailor Joe , my entertainer , ` Well , I 'm awake now ! ' and slept straight off the next instant . It seemed to me that I had but taken a turn from right to left , or gone round a wheel , when I repeated the same words , and I heard Temple somewhere near me mumble something like them . He drew a long breath , so did I : we cleared our throats with a sort of whinny simultaneously .