midnight
the colonel asked at last . `` We 're to meet a man , '' Senesin said , with an air of melodrama . `` We will get a call at fifteen of twelve , telling us where to meet him . We have to be there at midnight . '' _ Oh , brother _ , thought the colonel , _ they really picked their man . They 've got him thinking he 's hip-deep in a romantic spy story . _ _ Was I that way at twenty-two ?