midnight
A week later , to the very day , early in the morning a police officer brought Wilhelm an official document summoning him to appear that afternoon before the head police authorities in the Stadtvogtei . He presented himself at the appointed hour in the office , and handed the document to an official , who , after glancing at it , asked : `` You are Dr. Wilhelm Eynhardt ? `` Yes . '' He took up a paper lying ready at hand , and said dryly : `` I have to inform you that , in accordance with the Socialist Act , you are ordered out of Berlin and its purlieus , and must be out of the city by to-morrow at midnight at the latest . '' `` Ordered out of Berlin ! '' cried Wilhelm , utterly taken , aback . `` And may I ask what I have done ? ''