midnight
He was positive , and declined every inducement to stay . Mr. Romfrey glanced at Nevil , thinking , You poor fool ! And then he determined to let the fellow have five minutes alone with him . This occurred at midnight , in that half-armoury , half-library , which was his private room . Rosamund heard their voices below . She cried out to herself that it was her doing , and blamed her beloved , and her master , and Dr. Shrapnel , in the breath of her self-recrimination . The demagogue , the over - punctilious gentleman , the faint lover , surely it must be reason wanting in the three for each of them in turn to lead the other , by an excess of some sort of the quality constituting their men 's natures , to wreck a calm life and stand in contention !