midnight
`` Phew ! Nearly an inch since eight bells last night ! '' ejaculated the old salt , with an air of concern . `` That means , sir , that it have fallen that little lot since midnight ; for I looked at it then , when Mr Keene relieved me , and it had n't dropped nothin ' then . '' `` Then what is going to happen ? '' I demanded . `` Are we going to have a hurricane ? ''