midnight
Good-night , sleep well . What a goose Mrs. Darcy is ! ' And , barely submitting to be kissed , Rose ran up the steps and upstairs . Langham and Robert smoked till midnight . Langham for the first time gave Elsmere an outline of his plans for the future , and Robert , filled with dismay at this final breach with Oxford and human society , and the only form of practical life possible to such a man , threw himself into protests more and more vigorous and affectionate . Langham listened to them at first with sombre silence , then with an impatience which gradually reduced Robert to a sore puffing at his pipe . There was a long space during which they sat together , the ashes of the little fire Robert had made dropping on the hearth , and not a word on either side .