midnight
But this had been his dinner . He meant to see it through . Once or twice he had seen real tragedy come to men as a result of the recklessness of long dinners , many toasts and the instinct to go on and make a night of it . Afterward they went to a midnight roof-garden , and at first it was rather dreary . Their youth was only comparative after all , and the eyes of the girls who danced and sang passed over them , to rest on boys in their twenties . Nolan chuckled . `` Pathetic ! ''