midnight
`` But you ca n't marry -- it 's simply out of the question . Why , you 're not yet twenty . '' `` Oh , we ca n't marry here , of course , but we 're going on to Washington to-morrow -- all our plans are made , and that 's why I came to see you . I want to borrow your horses to take us to the crossroads at midnight . '' Seizing him by the shoulder , Christopher shook him roughly in a powerful grasp . `` Wake up , '' he said impatiently ; `` you are either drunk or asleep , and you 're going headlong to the devil . If you do this thing you 'll be ashamed of it in two weeks . ''