midnight
But this could not be done . I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people 's . `` If you go , I go . '' `` As you have , according to your pampered habit , bought a car from now till midnight , I do n't see how we can fail to keep dry and warm . '' I had no argument left . Of course , I hate to swallow an early and rapid dinner . One did such things in the war , gladly dislocating an elderly digestion in the service of one 's country .