midnight
He walked up and down the room . `` Fat old coward . Damned fat old coward , '' he muttered over and over to himself . It was past midnight when he got into bed and began trying to quiet himself for sleep . In his dreams he saw a fat man with a chorus girl hanging to his arm kicking his head about a bridge above a swiftly flowing stream . When he got down to the breakfast room the next morning Sue had gone . By his plate he found a note saying that she had gone for Colonel Tom and would take him to the country for the day .