midnight
In your eyes every politician is an ardent , disinterested patriot , and every soldier or sailor a knightly hero of romance . Human beings , Cary , are made in streaks , like bacon ; we have our fat streaks and our lean ones ; we can be big and bold , and also very small and mean . Your great man and your national hero can become very poor worms when , so to speak , they are off duty . But I did n't come here , at great inconvenience , to talk this sort of stuff at midnight . Go ahead ; give me the details of this sabotage case which is baffling Dawson and the naval authorities ; let me hear about the cutting of those electric wires . '' `` It is , as I told you , in my note , a queer business . The _ Antinous _ , a fast light cruiser , came in about a fortnight ago to have some defects made good in her high-speed geared-turbines .