midnight
He had a lecture at nine in the morning , so did not see Cronshaw till the night . Once or twice Philip persuaded him to share the scrappy meal he prepared for himself in the evening , but Cronshaw was too restless to stay in , and preferred generally to get himself something to eat in one or other of the cheapest restaurants in Soho . Philip asked him to see Dr. Tyrell , but he stoutly refused ; he knew a doctor would tell him to stop drinking , and this he was resolved not to do . He always felt horribly ill in the morning , but his absinthe at mid-day put him on his feet again , and by the time he came home , at midnight , he was able to talk with the brilliancy which had astonished Philip when first he made his acquaintance . His proofs were corrected ; and the volume was to come out among the publications of the early spring , when the public might be supposed to have recovered from the avalanche of Christmas books . At the new year Philip became dresser in the surgical out-patients ' department . The work was of the same character as that which he had just been engaged on , but with the greater directness which surgery has than medicine ; and a larger proportion of the patients suffered from those two diseases which a supine public allows , in its prudishness , to be spread broadcast .