midnight
There , too , went forth the sun Like a white angel , going down to visit The silent , ice-washed cloisters of the Pole . '' -- RICHTER 'S `` TITAN . '' More than fifty years ago this thing happened : Jan Vedder was betrothed to Margaret Fae . It was at the beginning of the Shetland summer , that short interval of inexpressible beauty , when the amber sunshine lingers low in the violet skies from week to week ; and the throstle and the lark sing at midnight , and the whole land has an air of enchantment , mystic , wonderful , and far off . In the town of Lerwick all was still , though it was but nine o'clock ; for the men were at the ling-fishing , and the narrow flagged street and small quays were quite deserted . Only at the public fountain there was a little crowd of women and girls , and they sat around its broad margin , with their water pitchers and their knitting , laughing and chatting in the dreamlike light . `` Well , and so Margaret Fae marries at last ; she , too , marries , like the rest of the world . ''