midnight
`` Engaged on important business for the Government -- '' `` What Government ? '' `` How can you ask such a question ? '' `` I do ask it . I sent for you three times -- the third time after midnight . It was n't very modest , perhaps , I was so miserable I did n't care . I just wanted to put my arms around your neck and tell you to love me always -- that nothing else mattered -- '' `` Nothing else does matter , dearest -- '' `` Yes -- it does . It matters whether you have used me to betray my people .