midnight
`` Distinguished foreigners do n't come our way every day . I move you , Madam President , that we make these Wide Awake young ladies honorary members of the Club . '' The motion was put and carried with a round of applause , and a few minutes later the Boat Club meeting was informally adjourned . Algernon , reaching home at midnight , stole into his brother 's room and hung the bird-hoop near his bedside . With characteristic perverseness Elsmere , a sound sleeper by day , was easily wakened at night , and , as Algernon slipped out of the room , he sat up and watched the birds bobbing in the moonlight . Presently he dropped back on his pillow , sleepily content . `` Springs ! ''