midnight
`` I want the last thing I say to you , '' he stammered , `` to be this : that whatever you do will be right . I love you so that I will understand . '' When he arrived in New York , in his own name , he booked a stateroom on the _ Ceramic _ . She was listed to sail that evening after midnight . It was because she departed at that hour that for a week Jimmie had fixed upon her as furnishing the scene of his exit . During the day he told several of his friends that the report of the great oculist had been against him . Later , they recalled that he talked wildly , that he was deeply despondent .