midnight
She replied : ` You were not definite in your directions about the minutes . ' ` I feared to name midnight . ' ` Why ? ' ` Lest the appointment of midnight -- I lose my knowledge of you ! -- should make you reflect , frighten you . You see , I am inventing a reason ; I really can not tell why , if it was not that I hoped to have just those few minutes more of you . And now they 're gone .