midnight
said Mr. Dane . I 'd never heard things like that . It sounded like Billy , and I liked it . `` I 've got to catch that midnight train . '' For a minute it seemed as if we all stood shouting at one another , Lorraine asking him to stay all night , Charles Edward giving him a cigar to smoke on the way , I explaining to Lorraine that I 'd sleep on the parlor sofa and leave the guest-room free , and Mr. Dane declaring he 'd got a million things to do before sailing . Then he and Charles Edward dashed out into the night , as Alice would say , and I should have thought it was a dream that he 'd been there at all except that I felt his touch on my hand . And Lorraine put her arms round me and kissed me and said , `` Now , you sweet child , run up-stairs and look at the moonlight and dream -- and dream -- and dream . ''