midnight
-- What have you gone through ? ' I hesitated . What I actually had gone through I certainly did not propose to tell her . Other reasons apart I did not desire to seem madder than I admittedly am , -- and I lacked sufficient plausibility to enable me to concoct , on the spur of the moment , a plain tale of the doings of my midnight visitor which would have suggested that the narrator was perfectly sane . So I fenced , -- or tried to . ` For one thing , -- I have had no sleep . ' I had not , -- not one single wink .