one o'clock
I found after the interview that I had told him almost everything that I had said , done , or imagined since my birth , and at remembrance of it , recalled Nancy 's inquiries concerning my talk with Hugh , and prayed Heaven I had not been equally indiscreet before that block of steel . It was as the London man was leaving the house that the blindfolding of me was begun anew by Huey MacGrath entering with a note , saying that Nancy would like to have Mr. Magendie come to her sitting-room on the second floor . I paced up and down the lower hall , perplexed in mind and sick with dread of the horror hanging over us , yet with something in my heart which told me that , in spite of Hugh 's statements , Nancy Stair was with us -- with Sandy , and Danvers , and myself . Near one o'clock of the morning I heard Nancy 's voice , at the turn of the stair , saying good night to the London man . `` People think he 's ice , '' she cried , and I knew it was Pitcairn of whom she spoke ; `` but try a bit of flattery with him . Not on his looks , for he cares less for them than for the wind that blows , but on his abilities . Tell him that all knowledge of the Scots law will end at his death , and that you 're flattered to be on the same case with him ; tell him that Moses but anticipated him in the Ten Commandments , and that , before the time of Leviticus , he was .