midnight
But it would be known if you -- if you stayed on . My servants -- everybody about here knows you . I 've no right to expose you to the risk . ' She made no answer , and I went on tenderly : ` Give me , if you will , the next few hours : there 's a train that will get you to town by midnight . And then we 'll arrange something -- in town -- where it 's safer for you -- more easily managed ... . It 's beautiful , it 's heavenly of you to have come ; but I love you too much -- I must take care of you and think for you -- ' `` I do n't suppose it ever took me so long to say so few words , and though they were profoundly sincere they sounded unutterably shallow , irrelevant and grotesque . She made no effort to help me out , but sat silent , listening , with her meditative smile .