midnight
`` It is five minutes past six , and I have barely another five minutes to stay with you , and there 's a lot to talk over . '' `` I 'm in great luck to be able to come at all , Nancy . I did n't think I could ever slip away from the others . As to the midnight picnic , we must give it up . It is quite impossible for me to come . And I know the others wo n't ; they 're all getting so fond of Aunt Sophy . What do you think ?