midnight
Did I not hear the chain rattling softly last night ? I got up and looked out , and I saw Zorzi , as I see you , taking the padlock off . I am not blind -- praise be to heaven , I see . He turned the boat to the left , so he must have been going to Venice , and it was at least an hour after the midnight bells when I heard the chain again , and I looked out , and there he was . But he did not come into the house . And this morning I saw him coming out of the glass-house , just as the men went in . He was as pale as a boiled chicken . ''