midnight
`` What did you think had become of me that I could not attend to my own business ? '' asked Theodore , dropping wearily into the nearest chair . `` Tommy said you were putting three policemen in jail , or something . '' `` It was _ something _ , sure enough , '' answered Theodore , smiling faintly ; and then he gave a rapid and condensed account of the midnight scene , interrupted by many exclamations of horror and amaze from his listener . `` Had you much trouble in this quarter ? '' he asked presently , going to the bedside and looking long and earnestly at Pliny . `` Very little .