About midnight
So saying , he drew his sword and flourished with it , to the great terror of Strap ; while Miss Jenny , snapping her fingers , told him she did not value his resentment a louse . In the midst of this quarrel the master of the waggon alighted , who , understanding the cause of the disturbance , and fearing the captain and his lady would take umbrage and leave his carriage , was at great pains to have everything made up , which he at last accomplished , and we sat down to supper altogether . At bedtime we were shown to our apartments ; the old usurer , Strap , and I , to one room ; the captain , his wife , and Miss Jenny , to another . About midnight , my companion 's bowels being disordered , he got up , in order to go backward , but in his return , mistaking one door for another , entered Weazel 's chamber , and without any hesitation went to bed to his wife , who was fast asleep , the captain being at another end of the room groping for some empty vessel , in lieu of his own chamberpot , which was leaky : as he did not perceive Strap coming in , he went towards his own bed , after having found a convenience ; but no sooner did he feel a rough head , covered with a cotton nightcap , than it came into his mind that he had mistaken Miss Jenny 's bed instead of his own , and that the head he felt was that of some gallant , with whom she had made an assignation . Full of his conjecture , and scandalised at the prostitution of his apartment , he snatched up the vessel he had just before filled , and emptied it at once on the astonished barber and his own wife , who waking at that instant , broke forth into lamentable cries , which not only alarmed the husband beyond measure , but frighted poor Strap almost out of his senses ; for he verily believed himself bewitched , especially when the incensed captain seized him by the throat , with a volley of oaths , asking him how he durst have the presumption to attempt the chastity of his wife . Poor Strap was so amazed and confounded , that he could say nothing but -- `` I take God to witness she 's a virgin for me . '' Mrs. Weazel , enraged to find herself in such a pickle through the precipitation of her husband , arose in her shift , and with the heel of her shoe which she found by the bedside , belaboured the captain 's bald pate till he roared `` Murder . ''