midnight
You 're too cool a man to mind when you touch a card . Come on . '' `` That 's all right . At midnight , I said to myself , and at midnight it shall be or not at all . '' The old gamblers in the place nodded approval of this resolution . It was all right enough for Bert Ragstock to sneer at superstition , because he was not a real gambler . He merely came to Mellish 's rooms in the evening because the Stock Exchange did not keep open all night .