midnight
`` I will warn the servants as soon as I return to Rosylyn . When may I expect you this evening , Mr. Keen ? '' `` It is impossible to say , Mrs. Stanley . If I am not there by midnight I shall try to call next morning . '' So they exchanged civil adieus ; the Tracer hung up his receiver and leaned back in his chair , smiling to himself . `` Curious , '' he said , `` that chance should have sent that pretty woman to me at such a time ... . Kerns _ is _ a fine fellow , every inch of him .