midnight before
`` Are we dreaming , or can such large cities actually be ? '' `` It seems to me that I have a remembrance of large towns in some previous stage of existence , somewhere in the universe , '' sighed Holmes ecstatically . `` But this town is bigger , noisier , fuller of life and fun than anything I can recall . '' `` We have until midnight before the home train leaves , '' pursued Dick . `` Home ! Now , that is something of which I have a much keener recollection ! '' cried Greg , his eyes moistening .