about
midnight
`` Dick , '' said Colonel Winchester suddenly , `` as you came across Kentucky from Mill Spring , and passed so near Pendleton it must have been a great temptation to you to stop and see your mother . '' `` It was . It was so great that I yielded to it . I was at our home about midnight for nearly an hour . I hope I did nothing wrong , colonel . '' `` No , Dick , my boy . Some martinets might find fault with you , but I should blame you had you not stopped for those few moments .