midnight
After the first twenty-four hours he insisted that he was well enough to be changed into the ward above , and leave his bed on the ground floor to some one more seriously injured . On the second day he sat up in a reclining chair , and announced that twelve hours more would see him out of hospital . Doctors and nurses protested that he would throw himself back into a fever , and the consequences might be serious ; but as at that very time the danger of the town being taken was imminent , arguments for prudence lost their force . Toward evening on the third day Eagle , with his head and one hand still in bandages , was limping about the field where the _ Golden Eagle _ had been repaired ; and when he came back it was to say that he thought he might get off at midnight with dispatches for the king in Brussels . He calmly announced this intention to me as I handed him an innocent cup of broth , better suited to a confirmed invalid than to a recovered aeronaut . But he quietly accepted the cup ; and I saw by the look in his eyes that I was to expect the first real talk we had had together . `` What about your going with me , Peggy ? ''