midnight
But much more for Lady Emily Rich , of whose fate I have now to tell . My friend , Mrs. Shrewton Stanhope , was very reserved , would tell me nothing , even when I roundly said that I had fancied to see her in the park one evening . She had the hardihood to meet my eyes with a blank denial , and very plainly there was nothing to be learned from her . A visit , many visits to the London parks at the hour between eleven and midnight taught me no more ; but being by now thoroughly interested in the affairs of Lady Emily Rich I made it my business to get a glimpse of her . She was , it seemed , the only unmarried daughter of the large Richborough family which had done so well in that sex , and so badly in the other that there was not only no son , but no male heir to the title . That , indeed , expired with Lady Emily 's father . I do n't really know how many daughters there were , or were not .