midnight
It is not often , I fancy , that a prince has been put through his paces at this rate . No one knows the wedding-day ; the cards of invitation have been printed half a dozen times over , with a different date ; each time Christina has destroyed them . There are people in Rome who are furious at the delay ; they want to get away ; they are in a dreadful fright about the fever , but they are dying to see the wedding , and if the day were fixed , they would make their arrangements to wait for it . I think it very possible that after having kept them a month and produced a dozen cases of malaria , Christina will be married at midnight by an old friar , with simply the legal witnesses . '' `` It is true , then , that she has become a Catholic ? '' `` So she tells me . One day she got up in the depths of despair ; at her wit 's end , I suppose , in other words , for a new sensation .