midnight
` You know you 're always up his place , ' said the wife ; ` and I wonder what _ I _ should do if it was n't for the doctor 's novels ! ' The doctor was evidently a favourite of hers . ` I 'm not always up at his place , ' the husband contradicted . ` You know perfectly well I never go there before midnight . And HE knows perfectly well that I only go because he has the best whisky in the town . By the way , I wonder whether he knows that Simon Fuge is dead . He 's got one of his etchings .