midnight
`` Do you suppose we 're snowed in ? '' That was just exactly what it meant . The porter , his eyes rolling , told them all about it . The train had stood just here , `` in the middle of a snow-bank , '' since midnight . It was still snowing . And the train was covered in completely with the soft and clinging mantle . At first the two chums bound for Tillbury were only excited and pleased by the novel situation .