midnight
You are a sort of looking-glass to us , in which we can see how we appear from a different point of view from our own . If it were not for you , we should never have realized what remarkable people we are , for to one another , I assure you , we seem very ordinary . '' To which I replied that in talking with them I got the same looking-glass effect as to myself and my contemporaries , but that it was one which by no means ministered to my vanity . When , as we talked , the globe of the color clock turning white announced that it was midnight , some one spoke of bed , but the doctor had another scheme . `` I propose , '' said he , `` by way of preparing a good night 's rest for us all , that we go over to the natatorium and take a plunge . '' `` Are there any public baths open so late as this ? '' I said .