midnight
though surely those laws are much more inhuman , which forge adamantine fetters to bind minds together , that never can mingle in social communion ! What indeed can equal the wretchedness of that state , in which there is no alternative , but to extinguish the affections , or encounter infamy ? ''' `` TOWARDS midnight Mr. Venables entered my chamber ; and , with calm audacity preparing to go to bed , he bade me make haste , ` for that was the best place for husbands and wives to end their differences . He had been drinking plentifully to aid his courage . `` I did not at first deign to reply . But perceiving that he affected to take my silence for consent , I told him that , ` If he would not go to another bed , or allow me , I should sit up in my study all night . '