midnight
There was a long wicker chair among the furnishings of the room , and she lay down on it with her fur cloak muffled around her . There were sounds of movement in the inn . The old woman who had let her in , with the scent of intrigue of her kind , had brightened when she heard that another guest was coming . Beautiful women do not travel at midnight for nothing . She also was awake and expectant . Then quite suddenly came the sound of a car slowing down outside . She sprang to her feet in a tremor of excitement .