midnight
`` As to our amusements , make your mind easy . `` I have come to a distinct understanding with Papa that we are to have dances every evening -- except when we try a little concert as a change . Private theatricals are to follow , when we want another change after the dancing and the music . No early rising ; no fixed hour for breakfast ; everything that is most exquisitely delicious at dinner -- and , to crown all , your room next to mine , for delightful midnight gossipings , when we ought to be in bed . What do you say , darling , to the programme ? `` A last piece of news -- and I have done . `` I have actually had a proposal of marriage , from a young gentleman who sits opposite me at the table d'hote !