midnight
`` I suppose , though , you wo n't be able to drink much more of it than you do here : '' on realizing which crushing fact , his melancholy became , if possible , more profound than ever . Indeed , since he crossed the Channel , he had spent most of his leisure moments in a sort of chronic blasphemy , which , it is to be hoped , afforded him some slight relief and consolation , as it was wholly unintelligible to his audience ; for , to do Dick justice , in his sister 's presence the door of his lips was always strictly guarded . However , to Dorade they came -- hours after their time , of course , but perfectly safe : no accident ever does happen in France to any thing properly booked , except to luggage sent by _ roulage _ , to which there attaches the romantic uncertainty of Vanderdecken 's correspondence . Cecil rather liked traveling ; it never tired her ; so , by midnight she had seen Mrs. Danvers , weary and querulous , to bed -- gone through a variety of gymnastics in the way of _ accolades _ , with Fanny Molyneux -- taken some trouble in inquiring about shooting and other amusements likely to divert her brother from his sorrows -- and yet did not feel very sleepy . They ignore shutters in these climes ; and her reflection was still flitting backward and forward across the white window-blinds as Royston Keene came home from the Cercle . He knew the room , or guessed who the shadow belonged to ; and as he moved away , after pausing a minute or two , he waved his hand toward it , with a gesture so unwarrantably like a salute that , were _ silhouettes _ sensitive or prudish , it might have proved an offense not easily forgiven . The next morning was so soft and sunny that it tempted Miss Tresilyan out on the terrace of their hotel very soon after breakfast .