midnight
`` I have always been afraid of the chorus-girl business . I do n't like chorus girls . '' Bansemer , at another time , would have smiled . It was past midnight when the two left the stall and started in separate ways for their North Side homes . The master felt more secure than when he left the home of David Cable earlier in the night . Elias Droom said at parting : `` I do n't like your attitude toward Mrs. C. It 's not very manly to make war on a woman . '' `` My good Elias , '' said Bansemer , complacently surveying himself in the small mirror across the stall , `` all men make war on women , one way or another . ''