midnight
So sometime after midnight found David sleeping , and Lucy on her knees . It found Elizabeth dreamlessly unconscious in her white bed , and Dick Livingstone asleep also , but in his clothing , and in a chair by the window . In the light from a street lamp his face showed lines of fatigue and nervous stress , lines only revealed when during sleep a man casts off the mask with which he protects his soul against even friendly eyes . But midnight found others awake . It found Nina , for instance , in her draped French bed , consulting her jeweled watch and listening for Leslie 's return from the country club . An angry and rather heart-sick Nina . And it found the night editor of one of the morning papers drinking a cup of coffee that a boy had brought in , and running through a mass of copy on his desk .