midnight
Kedzie rewarded his punishment of Gilfoyle by arranging that he should never leave her again . It was Charity that he longed for , and Kedzie that he engaged to marry . In that period Peter Cheever had traveled a very short distance in a journey he had postponed too long . Cheever had been hardly conscious when they smuggled him at midnight from his club to his own home . He had slept ill and achily . He was ashamed to face the servants , and he wanted to murder his valet for being aware of the master 's defeat . He did not know how ashamed the household retainers were of him and of themselves .