midnight
`` Yes , she was killed , '' Sullivan said soberly . `` What I say now can do her no harm . '' He stopped to push back the heavy hair which dropped over his forehead , and went on more connectedly . `` It was late , after midnight , and we went at once to our berths . I undressed , and then I lay there for an hour , wondering how I was going to get the notes . Some one in lower nine was restless and wide awake , but finally became quiet . `` The man in ten was sleeping heavily .