nearly midnight
`` I 've no objection to the mountain top , '' said he . `` But I see that , if I get there , it 'll have to be in my own way . Let 's go out and mail the letter . '' And they went down the drive together to the post box , and , strolling back , sat under the trees in the moonlight until nearly midnight , feeling as if they had only just begun life together -- and had begun it right . * * * * * When Charles Whitney had read the letter he tore it up , saying half-aloud and contemptuously , `` I was afraid there was too big a streak of fool in him . '' Then , with a shrug : `` What 's the use of wasting time on that little game -- especially as I 'd probably have left the university the whole business in my will . '' He wrote Scarborough , proposing that they delay the assessment until he had a chance to look further into the railway situation .