midnight
He pushed out through them . He sat blind through the first-hour quiz in physics , with the whole class watching him . The thought of the Turk 's failure to rise kept unhappy vigil in his mind . The same sequence of reflections ran around like midnight mice in the wall : `` Just when I needed him ... . After all his talk ... . And us so chummy , sitting up all hours last night . And then the Turk throws me down ... .