midnight
`` Feeling any more humane than you did this morning ? '' he inquired genially , after he had opened his desk and found a box of cigars . `` I have n't been feeling otherwise since -- well , let 's say since midnight last night , '' countered Blount laughing . `` Why midnight ? '' `` That was about the time when I made up my mind definitely to stay in the fight . '' `` Then you are still meaning to go ahead on the lines you laid down this morning ? '' `` If I was n't , I should n't be here to take the train for the rally at Angora to-morrow night . ''