midnight
he said . `` Better let me dish out the spring-water and you take my job ! Lead on , MacDuff , to the kitchen . '' Although it was only midnight there was not a soul about . A hall leads back of the office to the kitchen and pantries , and there was a low light there , but the rest was dark . We bumped through the diet kitchen and into the scullery , when we found we had no matches . I went back for some , and when I got as far as the diet kitchen again Doctor Barnes was there , just inside the door .