midnight
We came home to the Ritz at midnight from a dinner with Major Murphy , where we had been notified that we were to start for the front the next morning . We told him that the new uniforms were not yet ready and confessed to him that we had the cheap uniforms ; he looked resigned . He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America , and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross . But when we reached our rooms that midnight , Henry lifted his voice , not in pleading , but in command . For we were to start at seven the next morning , and it was orders . So each went to his bedroom and began unwrapping his bundles . In ten minutes Henry appeared caparisoned like a chocolate divinity !