midnight
Everybody was indignant , not so much because the young Duke had been shot , but because they did not know why . If the sympathy of the women could have consoled him , our hero might have been reconciled to his fate . Among these , no one appeared more anxious as to the result , and more ignorant as to the cause , than Mrs. Dallington Vere . Arundel Dacre called on her the morning ensuing his midnight observation , but understood that she had not seen Sir Lucius Grafton , who , they said , had quitted London , which she thought probable . Nevertheless Arundel thought proper to walk down Hill Street at the same hour , and , if not at the same minute , yet in due course of time , he discovered the absent man . In two or three days the young Duke was declared out of immediate danger , though his attendants must say he remained exceedingly restless , and by no means in a satisfactory state ; yet , with their aid , they had a right to hope the best . At any rate , if he were to go off , his friends would have the satisfaction of remembering that all had been done that could be ; so saying , Dr. X. took his fee , and Surgeons Y. and Z. prevented his conduct from being singular .