midnight
I held it probable at all events that Miss Tita had not read a word of his poetry . Moreover if , with her companion , she had always escaped the interviewer there was little occasion for her having got it into her head that people were `` after '' the letters . People had not been after them , inasmuch as they had not heard of them ; and Cumnor 's fruitless feeler would have been a solitary accident . When midnight sounded Miss Tita got up ; but she stopped at the door of the house only after she had wandered two or three times with me round the garden . `` When shall I see you again ? '' I asked before she went in ; to which she replied with promptness that she should like to come out the next night . She added however that she should not come -- she was so far from doing everything she liked .