About midnight
`` They influence a certain following , but not a general following . This must be a general movement or none at all . The right people have n't taken hold . '' About midnight he unexpectedly announced that he was going home and to bed . Johnny was frankly scandalized . `` I think nothing will happen in this matter , '' said Keith , `` The time for mob violence has passed . If an attack were now to be made , I should consider it unfortunate , and should not want to be mixed up in it , anyway .