midnight
You will laugh -- but do you keep a Diary ? ' ` A line for a day ; not more . ' ` A line for a day would be quite as much as my uneventful life would need , Heaven knows , ' said Jasper , taking a book from a desk , ` but that my Diary is , in fact , a Diary of Ned 's life too . You will laugh at this entry ; you will guess when it was made : ``` Past midnight . -- After what I have just now seen , I have a morbid dread upon me of some horrible consequences resulting to my dear boy , that I can not reason with or in any way contend against . All my efforts are vain . The demoniacal passion of this Neville Landless , his strength in his fury , and his savage rage for the destruction of its object , appal me .