nearly midnight
`` That 's what Vicky tells me , '' she returned . `` Sometimes I believe I will try it , just for fun . '' `` You 'll find it such fun , you 'll stay in for earnest , '' I assured her , for she had shown a bit of inventive genius that I felt sure would make good in a little musical turn . It was nearly midnight when Steele came , and with him was a man I had never seen before , and whom I assumed to be the Mr. Somers I had heard about . And it was . As Steele entered , he cast his eye around for Vicky , and saw her at the bridge table down at the end of the room . Her back was toward us , and she was so absorbed in the game she did not look round , if , indeed , she heard the noise of their arrival .