about midnight
`` Shall I help with those dishes to-night ? '' he asked . `` No , we 'll do them in the morning , '' she replied without emphasis and as a matter of course , which left him unassisted in his obvious predicament . `` Well , '' he drawled , after a time , `` it 's about midnight . I must say a river goddess is -- is beyond my most vivid dreams . I wonder -- '' `` What do you wonder ? '' `` If you 'll let me kiss you good-night now ? ''