midnight
Cadet scorched his new smock ... . Even Jan looked content , and actually asked his mother for a dance . She cried with joy . At midnight they all went to bed ; everybody was tired out . But Jan himself did n't sleep . Cadet said later that he had been sobbing the whole night . Oh , I tell you , he was well smitten that one ... * * * * * The next morning the mother heard someone running across her sons ' bedroom .