midnight
When I die , bury me in a peanut patch . While I live -- '' The expected avalanche of cushions quenched his song but not his ebullient spirits , for he was soon in a corner with Lottie Mason and Paula concocting a conspiracy against Terrence . And so the evening continued to be danced and joked and played away . At midnight supper was served , and not till two in the morning were the Wickenbergers ready to depart . While they were getting on their wraps , Paula was proposing for the following afternoon a trip down to the Sacramento River to look over Dick 's experiment in rice-raising . `` I had something else in view , '' he told her . `` You know the mountain pasture above Sycamore Creek .