nearly midnight
`` Would there be plenty left for you ? '' `` Bless me , yes , '' she laughed ; `` we 're quite rich . '' While he was gone Mary arranged an impromptu farewell party for him , so that instead of spending a rather depressing evening alone with her , as he had expected , he found himself surrounded by cheerful friends -- McEwan , the Farradays , their next neighbors , the Havens , and one or two others . McEwan was the last to leave , at nearly midnight , and pleading fatigue , Mary kissed Stefan good night at the door of her room . She dared not linger with him lest the stifled pain at her heart should clamor for expression too urgently to be denied . But by this time he himself began to feel the impending separation . Ready for bed , he slipped into her room and found her lying wide-eyed in a swathe of moonlight .