midnight
`` That sounds like a logical deduction . Naturally he must want you ; that 's why he said Venza . '' `` I 'm going , '' Anita insisted . We left half an hour before midnight . The girls were both in gray , with long capes . We took the public monorail into the mid-Manhattan section under the city roof of the business district , and into the Eighth Postal switch-station where the sleek bronze cylinders came tumbling out of the vacuum ports to be re-routed and dispatched again . A man was on the lookout for us .