midnight
Never was there a harsher necessity ! or one which entails greater pain , more certain disaster ; for wherever I seat myself , I die in exile : Whittaker in his lodging-house ; Lady Charles at the Manor . A young man with a Wellington nose , who had occupied a seven-and-sixpenny seat , made his way down the stone stairs when the opera ended , as if he were still set a little apart from his fellows by the influence of the music . At midnight Jacob Flanders heard a rap on his door . `` By Jove ! '' he exclaimed . `` You 're the very man I want ! ''