midnight
`` And there is n't anything to say . '' `` Oh , yes , there is -- _ oodles _ . '' `` And Aunt Isabelle will be worried . '' He drew the rug up around her and settled back as placidly as if the hands on the moon face of the clock on the post-office tower were not pointing to midnight . `` Aunt Isabelle has been told , '' he informed her , `` that you may be a bit late . I wrote it on the supper card , and she read it -- and smiled . '' He waited in silence until they had left the avenue , and were on the driveway back of the Treasury which leads toward the river .