midnight
`` Hang it all , Ralph , '' he went on , after the explosion , `` I must say I do n't like your taste in jokes . This is a bit too steep . '' I sat up straight , with a leg on each side of the chair , and looked reproaches . `` I thought , '' I said slowly , `` that when your brother behaved like such a -- well , we wo n't specify what -- you asked , I might even say begged , for my advice , and promised in a midnight conversation under this very tree to take it , no matter how disagreeable it might prove . '' `` I did ; but -- '' `` There 's no such word as ` but . ' Last year I advised you not to put your money into West Africans . You put it in .