midnight
She cast an unspeakably sad and reproachful glance at him . `` I knew you 'd be angry , '' she said , `` but I ca n't make myself out better than I am . '' `` Continue your story , '' he cried . `` And when I went to him at midnight he was still up , striding round the table , and he asked me if I should like to earn a great sum of money . ` Of course , _ gnädiger Herr _ , ' I said , ` I should like it very much , ' for then I was very poor . Whereupon he asked me if I was afraid of the dark . I laughed , and said he ought to know best ; and after a few more questions it came out what he wanted me to do .