midnight
I 'd show them their own foolishness . `` Stop a minute , Stone , '' I said , trying to speak calmly . `` You and the boy never knew Vicky Van . You never saw her , except as she ran along the street for a few steps at midnight . And Terence did n't see her then . It 's too absurd , this theory of yours ! But it startled me , when you sprung it .