midnight
Beside me Bann slept like a child ; but I was pretty damp when I went to bed , the rain and the wind came through , and every little thing waked me . Twice a peg pulled out , but the tent stood , and I was able to put it in again . So the night was long . Yet I got some sleep , and we were surely better off than our opposite neighbors , whose tent blew down soon after midnight , so that they had to crawl out and set it up in the dark and the driving rain . There are camp tales of all kinds of hardships . Some stayed round the fires all night to keep warm ; some , their tents collapsing , took refuge on a nearby piazza ; some talk of washing their faces this morning in hoar frost . But I _ saw _ none of this .