midnight
Look , here she is , the paid spy , the secret agent , of England . Additionally , she is intimately concerned with the private life of Mr. Pakenham . For the love of adventure , she is engaged in intrigue also with Mexico . Not content with that , born adventuress , eager devourer of any hazardous and interesting intellectual offering , any puzzle , any study , any intrigue -- she comes at midnight to talk with me , whom she knows to be the representative of yet a third power ! '' `` And finds you in your red nightcap ! '' I laughed . `` Did she speak of that ? ''