About midnight
`` But you must bear in mind , too , the circumstance that the laddie 's just sold a picture . '' `` Good business ! '' ejaculated Lightmark , as he reflected to himself that perhaps that despaired-of fiver would be repaid after all . About midnight most of the men left . Rainham remained , and Lightmark , who professed himself too lazy to move . Rainham lapsed into his familiar state of half-abstraction , while his friend cross-examined a young sculptor fresh from Rome . At the next table Oswyn was holding forth , with eager gesticulations and the excitement of the hour in his eyes , on the subject of a picture which he contemplated painting in oils for exhibition at the Salon next year .