an hour after midnight
Then he left her , and she sat alone , first in the dusk and then in the dark , for two hours , doing nothing . Was this to be the life which she had procured for herself by marrying Mr. Kennedy of Loughlinter ? If it was harsh and unendurable in London , what would it be in the country ? The Willingford Bull Phineas left London by a night mail train on Easter Sunday , and found himself at the Willingford Bull about half an hour after midnight . Lord Chiltern was up and waiting for him , and supper was on the table . The Willingford Bull was an English inn of the old stamp , which had now , in these latter years of railway travelling , ceased to have a road business , -- for there were no travellers on the road , and but little posting -- but had acquired a new trade as a dépôt for hunters and hunting men . The landlord let out horses and kept hunting stables , and the house was generally filled from the beginning of November till the middle of April .