midnight
After the reception was over , a few of Patty 's more intimate friends were invited to remain to dinner with the Fairfields . `` Can you stay , Little Billee ? '' asked Patty , dancing up to him , as he seemed about to leave . `` I have to take a midnight train , '' he said , `` and I have some business matters that I must attend to first . So if I may , I 'll run away now , and come back this evening for a dance with you . '' `` All right ; be sure to come , '' and Patty flashed him a smiling glance , and danced away again . It was after eleven before Farnsworth returned , and Patty had begun to fear he would not come at all .