midnight
I regret to add also that she slapped his outstretched fingers a little sharply with her inevitable black fan as he still advanced . `` We are not in California . It is Washington . It is after midnight . I am a poor girl , and I have to lose -- what you call -- ` a character . ' You shall sit over there , '' -- she pointed to the sofa , -- `` and I shall sit here ; '' she rested her boyish head on the top of the chair ; `` and we shall talk , for I have to speak to you , Don Royal . '' Thatcher took the seat indicated , contritely , humbly , submissively .