midnight
`` And what becomes of all that money , if Carmina never marries , or if she leaves no children ? '' `` In either of those cases , sir , the whole of the money goes to Mrs. Gallilee and her daughters . ''' Time had advanced to midnight , after the reading of the Will -- and Ovid was at home . The silence of the quiet street in which he lived was only disturbed by the occasional rolling of carriage wheels , and by dance-music from the house of one of his neighbours who was giving a ball . He sat at his writing-table , thinking . Honest self-examination had laid out the state of his mind before him like a map , and had shown him , in its true proportions , the new interest that filled his life .