about twelve o'clock
Nor could he see any remedy for his position . It was all blank and black before him . It may be doubted whether he got much instruction or amusement from the pages of the magazine which he turned . At about twelve o'clock he left the club and took his way homewards . But he did not go straight home . It was a nasty cold March night , with a catching wind , and occasional short showers of something between snow and rain , -- as disagreeable a night for a gentleman to walk in as one could well conceive . But he went round by Trafalgar Square , and along the Strand , and up some dirty streets by the small theatres , and so on to Holborn and by Bloomsbury Square up to Tottenham Court Road , then through some unused street into Portland Place , along the Marylebone Road , and back to Manchester Square by Baker Street .