midnight
Hugh took but little notice of the conversation . It was drawing near the time when he would go forth to meet Dorise at their trysting place . In anxiety he went into the adjoining room , and there smoked alone until just past eleven o'clock , when he put on his hat and went forth into the dark , deserted street . Opposite High Street Kensington Station he jumped upon a bus , and at five minutes to midnight alighted at the Marble Arch . On entering the park he quickly found the seat he had indicated as their meeting place , and sat down to wait . The home-going theatre traffic behind him in the Bayswater Road had nearly ceased as the church clocks chimed the midnight hour . In the semi-darkness of the park dark figures were moving , lovers with midnight trysts like his own .