midnight
Given further chances of intimacy , a rose might not again suffice ! By the time Dalton had reached the crossroads , indecision had again taken possession of him , and he hesitated at the wheel . He had left the Brights ' party fully intending to run out to Sombari , but had been diverted ; and now it was too late . They would not be expecting him after midnight . He yawned , thoroughly tired , as he had had a strenuous day , and decided to call at the Mission fairly early in the morning , instead . There was nothing he could do for the sufferer more than was being done by the trained nurse he had procured for the case . Satisfied in mind that bed was the best place for tired people , Dalton turned his car and drove it to his own bungalow next door to the Brights ' .