midnight
Besides , a clever lawyer might prove the exclusion illegal . What was done was done . The dignity of the hero of a hundred dramas was best served by private beefsteaks and a rumoured version , irrefutable save in a court of law . It was bad enough that the Heathen Journalist should supply so graphic a picture of the midnight melodrama , coloured even more highly than Goldwater 's eyes . Kloot had been glad that the Journalist had left before the episode ; but when he saw the account he wished the scribe had stayed . ` He wo n't play Hamlet with that pair of shiners , ' Pinchas prophesied early the next morning to the supping café . Radsikoff beamed and refilled Pinchas 's glass with champagne .