midnight
What a hideous , degrading and unjust accusation lay in that exclamation ! Should he submit to it unrevenged ? Was she as innocent as she was haughty and cold ? What was she doing in the viridarium at midnight ? -- For she must have been there before that ill-starred dog flew at Mandane . An assignation with the owner of the shoes his mother had found was out of the question , for they belonged to some man about the stables . Love , thought he , for a wonder had nothing to do with it ; but as he came in he had noticed a man crossing the court-yard who looked like Paula 's freedman , Hiram the trainer .