midnight
If I knew now why Rosie had taken the basket of dishes , I did not know who had spoken to her and followed her along the drive . If I knew that Louise was in the lodge , I did not know why she was there . If I knew that Arnold Armstrong had spent some time in the lodge the night before he was murdered , I was no nearer the solution of the crime . Who was the midnight intruder who had so alarmed Liddy and myself ? Who had fallen down the clothes chute ? Was Gertrude 's lover a villain or a victim ? Time was to answer all these things .