midnight
`` Water ! '' moaned Nicholas . `` For Christ 's sake give me water ! '' `` Why should I give you water in payment for your midnight steel yonder in the narrow street ? What kind of water was it that you gave Red Eve far away at Blythburgh town ? '' asked Dick in his hissing voice which sounded like that of an angry snake . But Hugh , who could bear no more of it , ran down to the courtyard , where he had seen a pitcher standing by a well , and brought water .