midnight
`` I am quite ready now , '' was his tranquil response . `` Diamonds are trumps : be so good as to play , gentlemen . '' Having won twenty guineas at whist , and taken leave of his friends , Phileas Fogg , at twenty-five minutes past seven , left the Reform Club . Passepartout , who had conscientiously studied the programme of his duties , was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour ; for , according to rule , he was not due in Saville Row until precisely midnight . Mr. Fogg repaired to his bedroom , and called out , `` Passepartout ! '' Passepartout did not reply . It could not be he who was called ; it was not the right hour .