midnight
But I felt wretched . Mother , I 'm getting , '' he announced with a naïve triumph , `` awfully domestic . I got the hump the minute Ellen left Edinburgh . I felt I must come down to you at once , so I went and got the cycle and started off straight away , and I would have been here by midnight if I had n't had a smash at Upminster . No , I was n't hurt . Not a scrap . It was at the beginning of that garden suburb .