midnight
Raymond had now started practising on his own account ; he was popular with his poor patients in the crowded slums round King 's Cross , amongst whom his work chiefly lay , and day and night he toiled in their midst . Certainly the sights he saw there were not calculated to destroy his revolutionary longings , though they were often such as might well have made him doubt of the ultimate perfectibility of the human race . `` Oh , I am so glad to find you , Raymond , and I should enjoy a nice long talk together ; but you must be tired ; you have , I suppose , only just come in after working all night ? '' He explained to me that he had been summoned after midnight to attend a poor woman 's confinement , and had stayed with her till past four , when , feeling more inclined for a walk than for his bed , he had wandered off in the direction of Highgate and had only just got home . `` By the way , Isabel , '' he said , `` as I was coming down the Caledonian Road I met your friend Armitage . He is a good fellow whom I have always liked , so I stopped him and we had a chat . He explained to me that he was attired in his new pedestrian costume , which indeed struck me as almost pre-Adamite in its simplicity .