midnight
says I. `` Have you been mixed up in anything here ? '' `` Hit was the mide across the way , sir -- across the wall , that is to say . Well , perhaps Hi 've been too attentive to their Hemmy , sir , from the hupper-story window ; but she was that pretty and so fond of me ! Hi ` ope Hi did no wrong , sir ; but you see , sometimes when all was quite still , sir , Hi did flash a light across from my window on ` ers , and we did ` ave a ` appy time , sir , come midnight -- quite silent , sir , and quite far apart ; quite respectable , Hi assure you , sir -- nothing more -- all above the wall ; for otherwise Hi could n't ` ave seen ` er at all . '' `` Was you busy with that sort of thing about one or two o'clock this morning ? '' I ast him . `` I want to know what you done -- what happened ? ''