midnight
Would you LIKE to go ? '' To all these hurried questions I answered with as hurried an affirmative . It was sufficient to me that he evidently liked to go . `` It is only for once -- your father would not grudge us the pleasure , and he is too busy to be out of the tan-yard before midnight . We will be home soon after then , if I carry you on my back all the ten miles . Come , mount , we 'll go . '' `` Bravo ! ''