midnight
There is what no other person has ever possessed -- the key of the front door . There is also the key of the cabinet . Prince Shan has ordered his automobile for two o'clock . It is now barely midnight . '' The keys lay in the palm of Maggie 's hand . Her heart had begun to beat quickly . Somehow or other , she was conscious of a thrill of excitement which she had never before experienced , even when she had sat back in her corner of the railway carriage , watching for the frontier , knowing that the wires were busy with her name , and that men who knew no mercy were on her track .