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You are invited . '' `` Not before ? -- not to-night or to-morrow morning or tomorrow noon or night ? or the day after morning or noon ? Ca n't you see yourself , without my telling you , what an eternity it is ? '' He had followed her into the hall and to the foot of the stairway , looking up at her as she mounted with her face half turned to him . `` Not an instant sooner , '' she said .