midnight
`` Go just as you are , and do n't mind me . '' And so Kitty went , gathering courage at every pace , and sitting down opposite Mr. Arbuton with a vivid color to be sure , but otherwise lion-bold . He had been upbraiding the stars that had thrust him further and further at every step into the intimacy of these people , as he called them to himself . It was just twenty-four hours , he reflected , since he had met them , and resolved to have nothing to do with them , and in that time the young lady had brought him under the necessity of apologizing for a blunder of her own ; he had played the eavesdropper to her talk ; he had sentimentalized the midnight hour with her ; they had all taken a morning ride together ; and he had ended by having Mrs. Ellison sprain her ankle and faint in his arms . It was outrageous ; and what made it worse was that decency obliged him to take henceforth a regretful , deprecatory attitude towards Mrs. Ellison , whom he liked least among these people . So he sat vindictively eating an enormous breakfast , in a sort of angry abstraction , from which Kitty 's coming roused him to say that he hoped Mrs. Ellison was better . `` O , very much !