nearly midnight
`` I suppose not , Delia , '' the young man replied . But as it happened he was the first to go back ... . That late September day they had returned from a ramble in the hills . It was nearly midnight when the cab rattled up the deserted streets to their hotel . As Vickers bade his companion good-night , with some word about a long-projected excursion to Volterra , she said : -- `` Come in and I will sing for a while . I do n't feel like sleep ... . Yes , come !