nearly twelve o'clock
You do n't mind , do you ? And you , Sergeant , remember what I said ! '' With these words Beaumaroy slipped out of the door , and softly closed it behind him . When Captain Alec brought his fiancée home after the dinner of welcome and congratulation at Old Place , it was nearly twelve o'clock . Jeanne , however -- in these days a radiant Jeanne , very different from the mournful creature who had accompanied Captain Cranster 's victim to Inkston a few weeks before -- was sitting up for her mistress , and since she had to perform this duty -- which was sweetened by the hope of receiving exciting confidences ; for surely that affair was `` marching '' ? -- it had been agreed between her and the other maids that she should sit up for the doctor also . She told the lovers that Doctor Mary had been called for by Mr. Beaumaroy , and had gone out with him presumably to visit his friend Mr. Saffron .