about midnight
Only just ! Miss Lutwyche , in attendance , ventured on sympathetic familiarity . Mrs. Picture would not get any beauty-sleep to-night , that was certain . For it is well known that only sleep in bed deserves the name , and a clock was putting its convictions about midnight on record , dogmatically . Gwen 's laugh rang out soon enough to quash its last _ ipse dixits _ . `` Then the mischief 's done , Lutwyche , and another five minutes does n't matter . Mrs. Picture 's going to tell me all her news .