midnight
He went away and left Charity in a state of nerves . Her curiosity was a mania , but she feared that assuaging it might leave her in a worse plight . She hated herself for her enterprise and was tempted to cancel it . But when she heard Cheever come home at midnight and go to his room without speaking to her she felt a grim resentment toward him that was like a young hate with a big future . Every night Charity received a typewritten document describing Cheever 's itinerary for the day . The mute , inglorious Boswell took him up at the front steps , heeled him to his office , out to lunch , back to the office , thence to wherever he went . The name of Zada did not appear in the first report at all , but on the second day she met Cheever at luncheon , and he went shopping with her .