midnight
I struck a light and looked at my watch . Midnight . Then a glow came over me . `` We have heard the chimes at midnight , Master Shallow ! '' Never till then had _ I _ heard them . And the town in which I slept was Evesham , but a few miles from Stratford-on-Avon . What if those midnight bells had been to me but as any other , and I had reviled them for breaking my sleep ?