midnight
`` If we could find out what is true , or what Loristan thinks is true , we should have a clue to work from , '' she said . `` We have not much time , '' the man whispered . `` We are ordered to Bosnia at once . Before midnight we must be on the way . '' `` Let us go into the other room . He is coming . '' When Marco entered the room , the heavily-built man with the pointed dark beard was standing by the easy-chair .