midnight
It 's sort of fun to fight Ma Fike and all the fool rules . I enjoy smoking here twice as much as I would anywhere else . And Fike is n't half as bad as the board of visitors -- bunch of fat , rich , old Upper-West-Siders with passementeried bosoms , doing tea-table charity , and asking us impertinent questions , and telling a bunch of hard-worked slaves to be virtuous and wash behind their ears -- the soft , ignorant , conceited , impractical parasites ! But still , it 's all sort of like a cranky boarding-school for girls -- and you know what fun the girls have there , with midnight fudge parties and a teacher pussy-footing down the hall trying to catch them . '' `` I do n't know . I 've never been to one . '' `` Well -- does n't matter ... .