midnight
Doctor Danton laughed . '' ` Long have I been true to you , Now I 'm true no longer ! ' '' `` Those are most atrocious sentiments you are singing -- do you not know it , Miss Eeny ? '' Mr. Stanford beside Kate , Lord Ellerton listening politely to Rose , and Doctor Frank with Eeny , never found time flying , and were surprised to discover it was almost midnight . The guests departed , `` the lights were fled , the garlands dead , and the banquet-hall deserted '' by everybody but Reginald Stanford and Captain Danton . They were alone in the long , dimly-lighted drawing-room . `` You will take Kate 's place to night , '' the Captain was saying , `` and be Harry 's companion in his constitutional .