about midnight
Also a livid scar across his cheek where a bullet or shrapnel had plowed . `` It 's a fine morning after a wild night , '' Thompson broke the conversational ice . `` It was a wild night outside and no mistake , '' the man replied . `` We took cover about midnight -- got tired of plowing into it , and was n't too keen for wallowing through them rips off the Cape . Say , are you back long from over there ? '' `` Not long , '' Thompson replied . `` I left England two weeks ago . ''