midnight
`` I think Mr. Spavinger 's trick must have cured your sister 's fine friends of all belief in ghosts , '' he said . `` I doubt they would be as ready to believe -- or to pretend to believe -- to-morrow , '' answered Angela . `` They think of nothing from morning till night but how to amuse themselves ; and when every pleasure has been exhausted , I suppose fear comes in as a form of entertainment , and they want the shock of seeing a ghost . '' `` There have been no more midnight parties since Lady Sarah 's assembly , I think ? '' `` Not among people of quality , perhaps ; but there have been citizens ' parties . I heard Monsieur de Malfort telling my sister about a supper given by a wealthy wine-cooper 's lady from Aldersgate . The city people copy everything that their superiors wear or do . ''