midnight
I 'm ` Julian ' to her brother and he 's ` Brian ' to me . '' `` I certainly do think she might , '' said Father Beckett , with that slow , pleasant smile which Jim inherited from him . It 's late at night again -- no , early to-morrow morning , just about the hour when to-morrow 's war-bread is being baked by to-night 's war-bakers . But it 's good to burn the midnight electricity , because my body and brain are feeling electric . We have had the most astonishing day ! Of course , I expected that , because we were going to Noyon , and I evacuated all unneeded thoughts and impressions -LRB- for instance , those concerning the O'Farrells -RRB- to make room for a crowd of new ones , as we did at the Hôpital des Épidémies with convalescents , for an incoming batch of patients . But I did n't count on private , personal emotions -- unless we blundered into an air raid somewhere !