midnight
he asked . `` This is too swell a place for me . It looks as though everybody was gone to bed . '' In truth he was beginning to think of secret societies and mysterious midnight meetings . Only Nellie had not mentioned anything of the kind and he felt ashamed of acknowledging his suspicions by enquiring , in case it should turn out to be otherwise . Besides , what did it matter ? There was no secret society which he was not ready to join if Nellie was in it , for Nellie knew more about such things than he did .