midnight
His heart was light as he went . So rode the knights back to Camelot after perils and high deeds done for their ladies fair . The Kid 's lady had commanded him and he had obeyed . True , it was but a peach that she had craved ; but it had been no small deed to glean a peach at midnight from that wintry city where yet the February snows lay like iron . She had asked for a peach ; she was his bride ; in his pocket the peach was warming in his hand that held it for fear that it might fall out and be lost . On the way the Kid turned in at an all-night drug store and said to the spectacled clerk : `` Say , sport , I wish you 'd size up this rib of mine and see if it 's broke . I was in a little scrap and bumped down a flight or two of stairs . ''