midnight
Holy Virgin ! thanks , a thousand thanks ! I shall see my father again , my father ! '' It was past midnight , but the schoolmates were still sitting over their wine in a private room in the Lion at Lier . The Eletto had not grown weary of questioning , and Count Philipp willingly answered . Ulrich now knew what death the doctor had met , and that his father had gone to Antwerp and lived there as an armorer for twelve years . The Jew 's dumb wife had died of grief on the journey , but Ruth was living with the old man and kept house for him .