midnight
Who cares ? Not one soul in a thousand ! But instead , with a gesture : ` Did ye hear of the startling adventure of Mrs. O'Hooligan ? She was coming home at midnight from a sick friend 's ' -LRB- it 's well to throw in a few sympathetic touches if ye can -RRB- . ` Suddenly an animal , a strange animal , came by , something like a mad bull ' -LRB- of course you can enlarge or diminish the animal as required ; in the mist of night I have found a black cat very telling -RRB- . ` She saw the vision quite plainly . It passed , touched her , there was a word in the air whose significance she was unable to determine , and in the morning the friend was well -- or dead . '