midnight
Before Rios followed him Kendric called : `` Where is Miss Gordon ? '' `` Gone to her room , señor . If you will look at your watch you will note that it is time . '' It was well after midnight and Kendric thought that for all the good he could do , he , too , might as well go to bed . But he was too stubborn a man to give up his friend so easily and he hoped that since Bruce was not a fool he would come in time to see the real Zoraida under the mask she had donned for his benefit . So he waited , walking up and down . Zoraida entered so quietly that she was in the room and the door shut after her before he felt her presence .