midnight
It lasted through fried soles and a huge fowl -- done enough this time -- and a bread-and-butter pudding impaired by too many raisins . Through the long end of a game of chess begun by Sally and Dr. Conrad the evening before , and two rubbers of whist , in which everybody else had all the good cards in their hands , as is the case in that game . And through the visit to Neptune above recorded . But when , after half-an-hour 's chat over the day 's events with Rosalind , midnight and an extinguished candle left Fenwick to himself and his pillow in the little room next hers with no door between , which Mrs. Lobjoit 's resources dictated , there came back to him first a recollection of his suppressed commonplace about the stone that had vanished for ever in the world of waters ; then a hazy memory of the same thing having happened before and the same remark having been made by himself ; then a sudden jerk of surprise , when , just as he was thinking of sleep , he was able to answer a question Space asked him spontaneously about where this happened , with what would have been , had he been quite awake , words spoken aloud to himself . `` That time at Niagara , of course ! '' And this jerk of surprise left him wide-awake , struggling with an army of revived memories that had come on him suddenly . He was so thoroughly waked by them that a difficulty he always had of remaining in bed when not asleep dictated a relighted candle and a dressing-gown and slippers .