About midnight
From down the hall a sleepy voice -- unmistakably Mrs. Brewster-Smith 's -- was drawling : `` George -- George -- are you awake ? I did n't hear you come in . Dear Geneviève went over to stay all night with Cousin Betty , and the oddest thing happened . About midnight the telephone bell rang , and that odious Eliot person called you up ! '' George was in the hall in an instant and before Mrs. Brewster-Smith 's door . `` Well , well , for God 's sake , what did she say ! '' he cried .