midnight
`` She said it was high time . '' Hurstwood scowled fiercely . There was no more to be done upon that score that night . He went on brooding over his situation until midnight , when he repaired again to the Palmer House . He wondered what the morning would bring forth , and slept anything but soundly upon it . Next day he went again to the office and opened his mail , suspicious and hopeful of its contents . No word from Carrie .