midnight
When is it to be ? '' * * * It was a triple wedding , the first and probably the last in the Filbert Islands , and one of the most charming affairs I have ever seen . We left the selection of our brides to Baahaabaa and , believe me , he showed himself a master-picker . The ceremony took place on the beach at high midnight , the fashionable island hour . How happy we all were ! Triplett 's qualifications had completely cleared the atmosphere of any moral misgivings which might have clouded the beauty of the gorgeous tropical night . The Captain read a service of his own composition full of legal whereases and aforesaids and containing one reference to the laws of the Commonwealth of the State of Massachusetts which struck me as rather far-fetched but which under the circumstances I decided to let pass .