midnight
`` I prefer this to any other site as having been veritably the Traitor 's Leap , '' said Kenyon , `` because it was so convenient to the Capitol . It was an admirable idea of those stern old fellows to fling their political criminals down from the very summit on which stood the Senate House and Jove 's Temple , emblems of the institutions which they sought to violate . It symbolizes how sudden was the fall in those days from the utmost height of ambition to its profoundest ruin . '' `` Come , come ; it is midnight , '' cried another artist , `` too late to be moralizing here . We are literally dreaming on the edge of a precipice . Let us go home . '' `` It is time , indeed , '' said Hilda .