midnight
My presence here I have explained . I can assure you that it is entirely accidental ! You have no right to detain me for a moment . '' The clock on the mantelpiece struck midnight . A sudden passion surged in his veins , a passion which , although at the time he could not have classified it , was assuredly a passion of jealousy ! He remembered the man Barnes , whom he hated . `` You shall not go to his rooms -- at this hour ! ''