midnight
She consented , with angelic resignation , to immolate her dignity to the servile necessities of my position . A more amiable woman -LRB- so far -RRB- I never met with ! After the second visit I was left free . It was then close on midnight . Up to that time there was nothing in the behavior of the mad Englishman to reward Mrs. Fairbank and the doctor for presenting themselves at his bedside . He lay half awake , half asleep , with an odd wondering kind of look in his face . My mistress at parting warned me to be particularly watchful of him toward two in the morning .