about midnight
`` You are always in luck nowadays , '' sighed Madame d'Ambre . A shadow seemed to pass over the stolid face of the man , but she did not see it . `` Naturally we accept the kind invitation , is it not so , dear Mademoiselle ? '' `` I must be at Ciro 's anyhow , about midnight , '' said Carleton , `` for Schuyler asked me to meet him there for a Welsh rabbit after the opera . But I 'll be delighted to go over and sit with you till he comes . '' He had the pleasant drawl of a Southerner . `` Oh , you 're very , very kind , '' stammered Mary .