midnight
She was afraid to speak , however , because of her previous snubbing , and went back , stopping in the doorway to sigh dismally . Somewhere down-stairs a clock with a chime sang away the hours -- eleven-thirty , forty-five , twelve . And then the lights went out to stay . The Casanova Electric Company shuts up shop and goes home to bed at midnight : when one has a party , I believe it is customary to fee the company , which will drink hot coffee and keep awake a couple of hours longer . But the lights were gone for good that night . Liddy had gone to sleep , as I knew she would . She was a very unreliable person : always awake and ready to talk when she was n't wanted and dozing off to sleep when she was .