Compton Salwood had come to prepare for the midnight appointment to which he had been summoned by a master plotter whose purposes he served.

If Salwood chose to keep the midnight appointment, all would be well.

Think of it, as one official put it, as a midnight appointment made at 2 p.m.

I've been in this work quite a while; and when I make a midnight appointment for business, I assure you that's all it is-business.

Then that takes care of your midnight appointment.

There he intended to keep his own midnight appointment with invaders who represented crime!

Something Delicate arrived, looking as cheerful and lightsome as ever, though understandably a bit bewildered at that clandestine midnight appointment.

Oh, he would make his midnight appointment with de Rohan.

Though Cranston didn't agree, he was thinking it over when he left the Cobalt Club to keep his midnight appointment.

That opportunity last presented itself in 1974, although other governors have made midnight appointments that did not require Senate confirmation.