four minutes after
midnight
Then the same ` hop took me up to my room in 1224 on the Twelfth . '' There was another moment of silence . Then he said , `` You 're Mr. Cornell . Registered in Room 1224 last night approximately four minutes after midnight . '' `` I know all about me . I was there and did it myself . And if I registered at four after midnight , Miss Farrow must have registered about two after midnight because the ink was still wet on her card when I wrote my name .