midnight
`` It has been no joke to him , I can assure you , '' said Mrs. Carbuncle . Lizzie could not press her request . Of course , she knew more about it than did Mrs. Carbuncle . The secret was in her own bosom , -- the secret as to the midnight robbery at Carlisle , and that secret she had told to Lord George . As to the robbery in London she knew nothing , -- except that it had been perpetrated through the treachery of Patience Crabstick . Did Lord George know more about it than she knew ? -- and if so , was he now deterred by that knowledge from visiting her ?