midnight
`` You mean he 's been waiting a _ year _ ? '' Doc nodded , seemed to lose interest in the Ponds , so I let the subject drop . We sat around after supper and polished off the rest of the beer . When we turned in around midnight I figured we would n't be staying long at the Twin Palms trailer court . It was n't a very comfortable place . I was wrong there . It was n't comfortable , but we stayed .