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What 's the use of have beens ? We may have been something once ; we are nothing now . ' Then they whispered long and earnestly together ; Stephen hesitatingly proposing this and that plan , Elfride modifying them , with quick breathings , and hectic flush , and unnaturally bright eyes . It was two o'clock before an arrangement was finally concluded . She then told him to leave her , giving him his light to go up to his own room . They parted with an agreement not to meet again in the morning . After his door had been some time closed he heard her softly gliding into her chamber .