nearly midnight
`` Oh , Bab , you are foolish to worry , '' Harriet protested . `` It would not be worth while for you and Mr. Meyers to go back now . You would only pass Ruth on the road . It is nearly midnight . '' `` I know it is , '' Bab agreed . `` And that is why I am so frightened . Do n't you think you could take me to look for them ?