midnight
Neither man moved . `` It is too late , Willy , '' she said . `` I have just married him . '' At midnight Howard Cardew reached home again , a tired and broken man . Grace had been lying awake in her bedroom , puzzled by his unexplained absence , and brooding , as she now did continually , over Lily 's absence . At half past eleven she heard Anthony Cardew come in and go upstairs , and for some time after that she heard him steadily pacing back and forth overhead . Sometimes Grace felt sorry for Anthony .