midnight
There was no reason against his presence at all except that his absolute blindness must needs have been manifest to every observer . She could see it all now . `` You know , dear , '' said Irene , `` if Adrian were a reasonable being , there would be no harm in his dining down , as Lutwyche calls it . He could sit up to dinner perfectly , but no earthly persuasion would get him up to bed till midnight . And as for lying down on sofas in the drawing-room after dinner , you could as soon get a mad bull to lie down on a sofa as Adrian , if there was what Lutwyche calls company . '' So that evening the beauty of the Earl 's daughter -- whose name among the countryfolk , by-the-by , was `` Gwen o ' the Towers '' -- was less destructive than usual to the one or two new bachelors who helped the variation of the party . For monumental beauty kills only poets and dreamers , and these young gentlemen were Squires .