midnight
`` Hmm ! '' I echoed , `` your subsequent marketing would n't cost much . '' I went down town on some imperative office business , came back in a cab , gave word to be called at such an hour , and lay down . But while I slept my order was countermanded and when I awakened it was once more midnight . I went to my open window and heard , through his balcony door -- locked , now , and its key in my pocket -- the Baron , snoring . Then I sprang into my clothes and sped across the street . I went first around to the outer door of the dining-room , and was briefly told the best I could have hoped , of Fontenette .