midnight
I am working at your trade ; you ought to see ! there 's many a fellow that would be glad to do as well as I do ! '' But Dietrich had disappeared . It was past midnight , before he reached the doctor 's house , and he knocked a good many times in vain . At last a maid came down and opened the door , saying as she did so , `` What a plague it is , that everything always comes at once ! He has been called out once to-night , and has hardly got to bed again . It never rains but it pours ! ''