midnight
` I ought to go , and the party ought to break up . But it is a shame to carry you off from so many friends . ' ` Mind ? Why , I have ordered supper for you in my rooms , and it is just midnight . I hope these people will have the sense to go soon . Now then , for a cab . ' They alighted at the gate of the Temple , and , as they walked across the quadrangle under a sky still heavy with storm-clouds , Madame de Châteauvieux said to her brother with a sigh : ` Well , it has been a great event .