midnight
`` A duel between twin brothers . '' Ricky twisted one of the buttons which marched down the front of her sport dress . `` That sounds exciting . '' `` They fought at midnight '' -- Creighton was enthralled by the story he was telling -- `` and one was left for dead . The scene is handled with restraint and yet you 'd think that the writer had been an eye-witness . Now if such a thing ever did happen , there would have been a certain amount of talk afterwards -- '' Charity nodded . `` The slaves would have spread the news , '' she agreed , `` and the person who found the wounded twin . ''