midnight
_ -- the night is dark . '' `` No , no ! '' hurriedly . We began a midnight course that took us quite across the old French quarter of Montreal . At last she turned into a small , dark street of modest one-story residences , iron-shuttered , dark and cheerless . Here she paused in front of a narrow iron gate . `` Madam , '' I said , `` you represent to me one of the problems of my life .