midnight
` On Wednesday . ' ` Will you undertake to do nothing whatever till Wednesday morning , and then to have another talk with me ? I 'll come and see you about ten o'clock . ' In the end Malkin was constrained into making this engagement , and not long after midnight the journalist managed to get rid of him . On Tuesday afternoon arrived a distracted note . ` I shall keep my promise , and I wo n't try to see you till you come here tomorrow . But I am sore beset .