midnight
People may surmise -- may invent , but they can not know your secret unless you tell it to them , and their imaginings take so many forms , the multitude of things that they create blot out all definite design . Thus every one at R -- had a different theory about my loss of spirits and the relapse of Mr. Langenau , but no one ever knew what passed that night . Richard came . He was closeted with Sophie until after midnight , but I do not think he told her anything that she desired to know . I think he only tried to find out from her what had passed -LRB- and she did not know that I had been in the library since she spoke to me -RRB- . If Mr. Langenau had been well , I have no doubt that it was his design to have dismissed him on the following day , no matter at what hazard . How much he knew I can not tell , but enough to have warranted him in doing that , perhaps .