midnight
He looked from Rainsford to Jack Holloway and back . `` Well , I 'll call you back , when we 've both heard the tape . You 're three time zones west of us , are n't you ? Then we 'll try to make it before your midnight -- that 'll be twenty-one hundred . '' He called back half an hour short of that . This time , it was from the living room of an apartment instead of an office . There was a portable record player in the foreground and a low table with snacks and drinks , and two other people were with him .