midnight
As the lower door closed , she sprang to the landing and called his name in a frightened voice that had no carrying power . * * * * * Later she telephoned to his several clubs . At eleven she called each club again ; and finally telephoned to his house . At midnight he had not telephoned in reply to the messages she had left requesting him to call her . Her anxiety had changed to a vague bewilderment . Her dismayed resentment at what he had said to her was giving place to a strange and unaccustomed sense of loneliness . Suddenly an overwhelming desire to be with Ilse seized her , and she would have called a taxi and started immediately , except for the dread that Jim might telephone in her absence .