about midnight
A great deal of it was more advanced ; for instance , the auditorium , _ foyer _ , and bars , which were utterly finished , so far as anything ever is finished in a changing world . Wonders , marvels and miracles had been accomplished . Mr. Alloyd , in the stress of the job , had even ceased to bring the Russian Ballet into his conversations . Mr. Alloyd , despite a growing tendency to prove to Edward Henry by authentic anecdote , about midnight , his general proposition that women as a sex treated him with shameful unfairness , had gained the high esteem of Edward Henry as an architect . He had fulfilled his word about those properties of the auditorium which had to do with hearing and seeing -- in so much that the auditorium was indeed unique in London . And he had taken care that the Clerk of the Works took care that the builder did not give up heart in the race with time . Moreover , he had maintained the peace with the terrible London County Council , all of whose inspecting departments seemed to have secretly decided that the Regent Theatre should be opened , not in June as Edward Henry had decided , but at some vague future date towards the middle of the century .