midnight
`` You sure handed one out to him , '' Lily said . Maurice chuckled at the role of knight-errant which she seemed to discern in him , but he talked earnestly of her future , and once or twice , soothed by his voice , she dozed -- but he did n't know it . Indeed , he told himself afterward that her silences showed how his words were sinking in ! `` It only goes to prove , '' he thought , when at midnight he left her at her own door , `` that the _ flower _ is in all of them ! If you only go about it right , you can bring their purity to the surface ! She felt all I said . Eleanor will be awfully interested in her . ''