midnight
`` I love ornaments , '' said he , `` but I can wait until tomorrow to get more of them ; so , as soon as that stupid private is transformed , we will all go to bed and leave the job to be finished in the morning . '' `` Is it so very late ? '' asked Dorothy . `` Why , it is after midnight , '' said the King , `` and that strikes me as being late enough . There is neither night nor day in my kingdom , because it is under the earth 's surface , where the sun does not shine . But we have to sleep , just the same as the up-stairs people do , and for my part I 'm going to bed in a few minutes . '' Indeed , it was not long after this that the private made his last guess .