midnight
She told how up in his tower he made you see the commerce of this whole mighty world of peace converging slowly on this port . She told of the night two years before when he had come home `` all shaken and queer '' and had said to her huskily , `` Eleanore , child , at last it 's sure . There 's to be a Panama Canal . '' Of other nights when he did n't come home and at last she went down to his office to fetch him and found him at midnight there with his men , `` all working like mad and gay as larks ! '' `` When it comes to millions of dollars for his work , '' she said , `` he 's so very keen that he makes you feel like a little child . But when it 's merely a question of dollars for himself to live on , he 's a perfect baby . He wo n't look at a bill , he always turns them over to me .