midnight
`` Oh yes . Listen ! '' She heard faint reports like distant small guns being fired . `` With any luck it 'll give us a bit of a Crystal Palace Bank Holiday exploit to-night -- we sail at midnight , you know . It will be rather gorgeous if the old bonfire will oblige . Red fires , white and silver moonlight -- why Naples is making me get poetical , '' he added , stopping short . People began to come on deck : the schoolmaster walked along , his finger in between two pages of a Baedeker in which he was going to count off the items of interest he encountered .