midnight
Angela inquired hesitatingly . `` My lordship 's horse will find his stables before morning with the groom that has him in charge . I am going to row you home . Love expectant is bold ; but disappointed love may lack courage for a solitary jaunt after midnight . Come , mistress , let us have no ceremony . We have done with that for ever -- as we have done with friendship . There are thousands of women in England , all much of a pattern ; and you are one of them .