midnight
They lived together in a highly-respectable but gloomy residence , kept bachelor fashion , for they had no woman-kind at all belonging to them . The father and son lived a good deal apart , though they were deeply attached to one another . Jack had his own apartments , and his own guests , in the spacious house , and Dr. Senior had his . The first night , as Jack and I sat up together in the long summer twilight , till the dim , not really dark , midnight came over us , I told him every thing ; as one tells a friend a hundred things one can not put into words to any person who dwells under the same roof , and is witness of every circumstance of one 's career . As I was talking to him , every emotion and perception of my brain , which had been in a wild state of confusion and conflict , appeared to fall into its proper rank . I was no longer doubtful as to whether I had been the fool my father called me . My love for Olivia acquired force and decision .