midnight
`` Have another ? '' said Doris . `` No mother ; and you must not bring the cabbage either . Up to midnight not a minute must be lost , and if I then leave off for a little while you must by that time be dreaming of all sorts of pleasant things . '' `` I will carry you the cabbage then , '' said his father , `` for I shall not be in bed so early at any rate . The hymn to Sabina , composed by Mesomedes , is to be performed with the chorus , as soon as the Empress visits the theatre , and I am to lead the upper part of the old men , who grow young again at the sight of her . The rehearsal is fixed for to-morrow , and I know nothing about it yet .