midnight
Scandal would be hard to face with no denial possible . Doctor Morgan had known it all and still trusted her ; likewise Luther ; but Hepsie , and Jake , and Sadie ? Besides , Jack would have to know , and would suffer for things of which he was innocent ! The girl wrestled with the subject till midnight , and long after . At last , to put it where she could not deceive herself , she wrote a simple statement of the whole thing and sealed it up with John 's address upon the envelope , and then raising her hand solemnly promised herself that this letter which contained the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth should be mailed as she had written it without being opened to change a word . She would answer John 's letter in one apart from this and send it by the same mail , but this letter she would send as it stood . As she got up to go to bed , she picked up the bag in which they brought the mail and felt in it to see if anything were left .