midnight
The hotel generally found a taxi which took us to the theater . But once there we had to skirmish for ourselves and London is a big town , and hundreds of thousands of Londoners are hunting taxis at eleven at night , and they are hard to catch . So we generally had the fun of walking back to Brook Street in the dark . And it is dark in London toward midnight . Paris is merely gloomy . Rome is a bit somber , but London is as black as the inside of your hat . For London has been bombed and bombed by the German airmen , until London in the prevailing mist which threatens fog becomes mere murk .