about midnight
`` I will be awake and watching for you , and I thank you with all my heart . '' Mr. Gerzson drank up his tea and hastened home . Leonard advised Henrietta to go and sleep -- and she really was very sleepy -- while he went to the stables to see to the horses . It was about midnight when he returned . He looked very tired , like one who has had a great deal of bustling about . He was alone in the drawing room , so he stirred up the fire , lit a cigar and waited in silence . At half past two Mr. Gerzson rang the gate-bell ; he entered the drawing-room very boisterously like one resolved to wake up the whole house .