midnight
`` Been getting out my weekly joke about the revolution . Had to write up this morning 's ` battle . ' Could n't work in my room , so I -- '' `` Sit down ; and do n't jump when I tell you what has happened . We 're going to be pinched at midnight . '' `` Why midnight ? '' `` I do n't know , unless that 's the fashionable hour for military calls . '' `` What 's it all about ? ''