midnight
Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And when there came no relief to their weariness , but only reproaches at its slightest manifestation , would not their weariness ferment it time to frenzy ? Lucretia , spinning at midnight in the midst of her maidens , and Solomon 's virtuous woman are often quoted as patterns of what ` the sex , ' as they say , ought to be . I do n't know . Lucretia , I dare say , was a most worthy sort of person , much like my cousin Hortense Moore ; but she kept her servants up very late . I should not have liked to be amongst the number of the maidens .