midnight
Moyne began to look uneasy . It seemed to me that he did not much like this military metaphor of the Dean 's . I imagine that he would have been still more uncomfortable if he had been obliged to take an active part in a campaign planned by Babberly . `` For the command of a forlorn hope , '' said the Dean , `` for the leading of a desperate charge , for the midnight dash across the frontier -- '' Some one in the audience suggested the Boyne as the boundary of the frontier . `` I should select Colonel Malcolmson . '' The audience highly approved of his choice . It seemed to me that the people did not quite grasp the fact that the Dean was speaking only metaphorically .