midnight
What should we gain by following Olga Loschek , eating her heart out in England , or the Committee of Ten , cowering in its cells ? They had failed , as the wicked , sooner or later , must fail . Or Karl , growing fat in a prosperous land , alike greedy for conquest and too indolent for battle ? To finish the day , then , and close with midnight . Nikky first , a subdued and rather battered Nikky . He was possessed by a desire , not indeed unknown to lovers , to revisit the place where he and Hedwig had met before . The roof -- no less .