about midnight
`` Did your grandmother get you word about the police ? '' Maggie asked with suppressed excitement as soon as they were seated . `` Yes . She came out here about midnight . '' `` Then why , while you still had time , did n't you get farther away from New York than this ? '' `` If I 'm to be caught , I 'm to be caught ; in the meantime , this is as safe a place as any other for me . Besides , I wanted to have at least one more talk with you -- after something new grandmother told me about you . ''