midnight
What a tent-pegger Rainbow would have made , eh , old boy ? ' he said , patting the horse 's neck . ` But Fate wo n't have it , and it 's no use whining . ' The coach was to pass half-an-hour after midnight . An awful long time to wait , it seemed . We finished the bottle of brandy , I know . I thought they never would come , when all of a sudden we saw the lamp .