eleven at night
But if we made a rather poor fist of our social diversions , at least we had a splendid time at the London shows . And then there was always the prospect of an exciting adventure getting home after the performance was over . 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 .