an
hour after midnight
`` It is rather a pity , '' the General said , `` that you did not . Do n't you know at all what he means to do ? '' Razumov calmed down and saw an opening there . `` He told me he was in hopes that a sledge would meet him about half an hour after midnight at the seventh lamp-post on the left from the upper end of Karabelnaya . At any rate , he meant to be there at that time . He did not even ask me for a change of clothes . '' `` _ Ah voila _ ! ''