midnight
Had Lucia known that , it would quite have wiped the gilt off Lady Ambermere 's being refused admittance . In point of fact it did wipe the gilt off when , about an hour afterwards , Georgie went to lunch because he told her . And if there had been any gilt left about anywhere , that would have vanished , too , when in answer to some rather damaging remark she made about poor Daisy 's interests in the love-affairs of other people 's servants , she learned that it was of the love-affairs of their superiors that all Riseholme had been talking for at least an hour by now . Again there was ill-luck about the tableaux on Saturday , for in the Brunnhilde scene , Peppino in his agitation , turned the lamp that was to be a sunrise , completely out , and Brunnhilde had to hail the midnight , or at any rate a very obscure twilight . Georgie , it is true , with wonderful presence of mind , turned on an electric light when he had finished playing , but it was more like a flash of lightning than a slow , wonderful dawn . The tableaux were over well before 10.45 , and though Lucia in answer to the usual pressings , said she would `` see about '' doing them again , she felt that Mrs Weston and Colonel Boucher , who made their first public appearance as the happy pair , attracted more than their proper share of attention . The only consolation was that the romps that followed at poor Daisy 's were a complete fiasco .