midnight
`` You talk , and we 'll listen . '' `` Not so , divinity , '' came the retort . `` I may be a parrot , but I do n't want my neck wrung when you 've gone . '' `` Do n't encourage him , Doris , '' said Grant , `` or you 'll be here till midnight . '' `` If that 's the best you can do , you had better leave the recital to me , '' laughed Hart . Meanwhile , Furneaux had stolen noiselessly to the bedroom overhead . The casement window was open -- he had noted that fact while in the garden .