midnight
The tide must have carried the bully out of the drook , while George was asleep , and drifted it around to the harbor . He promised himself the pleasure of teaching Master George the art of mooring a boat if he ever met him again . John Darling spent an anxious day . Shortly after midnight he was startled by a faint tapping on one of the windows . The night was pitch black , and so he could see nothing . The tapping was repeated . He rolled out of his blanket and across the floor toward the sound .