midnight
`` And sometimes , '' Philippa replied , `` they find their way into the heaven where our soberer thoughts could never take us . Good night , dear ! '' Mr. William Hayter , in the solitude of his chambers at the Milan Court , was a very altered personage . He extended no welcoming salutation to his midnight visitor but simply motioned him to a chair . `` Well , '' he began , `` is your task finished that you are in London ? '' `` My task , '' Lessingham replied , `` might just as well never have been entered upon . The man you sent me to watch is nothing but an ordinary sport-loving Englishman . ''