midnight
I hurried out in a foolish state of dread , and said to Joseph -- ` The master wishes you to take him a light and rekindle the fire . ' For I dared not go in myself again just then . Joseph rattled some fire into the shovel , and went : but he brought it back immediately , with the supper-tray in his other hand , explaining that Mr. Heathcliff was going to bed , and he wanted nothing to eat till morning . We heard him mount the stairs directly ; he did not proceed to his ordinary chamber , but turned into that with the panelled bed : its window , as I mentioned before , is wide enough for anybody to get through ; and it struck me that he plotted another midnight excursion , of which he had rather we had no suspicion . ` Is he a ghoul or a vampire ? ' I mused . I had read of such hideous incarnate demons .