midnight
`` By the way , Isabel , '' he exclaimed , `` I was quite forgetting to mention something I had done , to which I trust you will not object . You know how full up my place is just now with hard-up comrades . Well I took the liberty to send on to you a young Scotchman , I forget his name , who has just tramped up from the North ; a most interesting fellow , rather taciturn , but with doubtless a good deal in him . He had nowhere to pass the night , poor chap , and no money , so I told him that if he waited on your doorstep some time after midnight you would be certain to give him a night 's lodgings when you returned . Did I do right ? '' and the doctor 's kindly face beamed with the look of a man who expected approbation . `` Ye -- es , '' I gasped out , somewhat taken aback , `` quite right , of course ; '' for I felt that any hesitation would be feeble , a mere relic of bourgeois prejudice .