Midnight
`` If I can whisper you what you want , '' said Oliver , huskily , `` it 's at your service ! There are the cigarettes . '' The talk lasted long . Midnight was near before the two men separated . * * * * * The news of Marsham 's election reached Ferrier under Sir James Chide 's roof , in the pleasant furnished house about four miles from Beechcote , of which he had lately become the tenant in order to be near Diana . It was conveyed in a letter from Lady Lucy , of which the conclusion ran as follows : `` It is so strange not to have you here this evening -- not to be able to talk over with you all these anxieties and trials . I ca n't help being a little angry with Sir James .