midnight
But I must tell you more about it another time . The doctor 's looking bored . I must go and amuse him . '' Shortly after midnight Morgan and Ingram were driving towards Hampstead , in which vicinity , the latter explained , resided the lady upon whom they were going to call . For a long time the two sat silent -- they seemed to have nothing to say to each other . And even while Morgan was thrilled through and through with expectancy of romance , he could not help his brain playing a little with the general position , which , in face of what he had learnt to-night , was far more complicated than he had imagined . He smiled as it occurred to him how easily he could annoy Ingram by marrying Helen .