midnight
`` I ! '' Braithwaite 's bewilderment made him hostile . `` How could I have caused her to change her mind ? I parted with her after midnight ; it must have been shortly after nine that she was seeing you . I held no communication with her in any shape or form during the eight or nine hours that elapsed . '' `` Nevertheless , you were the cause . She realized in the meanwhile that in love everything is n't fair .