midnight
It was latish . She was standing near the bar , talking to half-a-dozen people at once , as usual ; but I saw she noticed me at once . She quickly drew off a bit from them all ; said it was near shutting-up time , and , after a while , passed through the bar into the little parlour where I was sitting down . It was just midnight . The night was half over before I thought of coming in . So when she came in and seated herself near me on the sofa I heard the clock strike twelve , and most of the men who were walking about the hall began to clear out . Somehow , when you 've been living at a place for a goodish while , and done well there , and had friends as has stuck by you , as we had at the Turon , you feel sorry to leave it .