midnight
`` Why should n't we collaborate ? '' said Henley in his most matter-of-fact way , as Big Ben gave voice to the midnight hour . `` Everybody does it nowadays . Two heads may be really better than one , although I seldom believe in the truth of accepted sayings . Your head is a deuced good one , Andrew ; but -- now do n't get angry -- you are too excitable and too intense to be left quite to yourself , even in book-writing , much less in the ordinary affairs of life .