midnight
`` If the night is clear enough , I may hope to be able to introduce you to the new celestial visitor about a quarter-past eleven to-night , or to be quite accurate eleven hours , sixteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds p.m. '' `` I think that 's good enough , Auriole , '' said her father . `` If the heavens are only kind enough , we 'll go up to the observatory and , as Mr Lennard says , see something that no one else has ever seen . '' `` And then , '' laughed Auriole , `` I suppose you will have achieved the second ambition of your life . You have already piled up a bigger heap of dollars than anybody else in the world , and by midnight you will have seen farther into Creation than anybody else . But you will let me have the first look , wo n't you ? '' `` Why , certainly , '' he replied . `` As soon as Mr Lennard has got the telescope fixed , you go first , and I reckon that wo n't take very long . ''