midnight
There was nothing else to be done . Overtaking her , he strode along by her side in a fury of mingled rage , sorrow , anger and disappointment . She paused at the corner of her street . As she did so bells far and near began to strike midnight , the clock at the City Hall leading off with its quarters . They had been gone an hour and a quarter . To both of them it seemed like a year . Nellie stopped at the corner of her street , under the lamp-post .