midnight
A constant visitor at my house ! This , and I knew it not ! '' Emerson grew deeply agitated as he rehearsed these things . It was after midnight when he retired . He did not go to his wife 's apartment , but passed to a room in the story above that in which he usually slept . Day was abroad when Emerson awoke the next morning , and the sun shining from an angle that showed him to be nearly two hours above the horizon . It was late for Mr. Emerson .