midnight
`` Do you think them big guns will be of any use ? '' asked Shif ` less Sol . `` Not at night , '' replied Henry , `` but in the daytime if we come to close quarters they 'll certainly say something worth hearing . '' It was now nearly half way between midnight and morning when the vitality is lowest . Paul , as he lay among the pawpaws , was growing very sleepy . He had not moved for so long a time and the night was so warm that his eyes had an almost invincible tendency to close , but his will did not permit it . Despite the long silence he had no doubt that the attack would come .