midnight
How can I return home ? That would bring disaster on them . I have left the kingdom of the living ; I am my own ghost ! '' If this were not so , she reasoned , how could she have got out of Saradasankar 's well-guarded zenana , and come to this distant burningground at midnight ? Also , if her funeral rites had not been finished , where had the men gone who should burn her ? Recalling her death-moment in Saradasankar 's brightly-lit house , she now found herself alone in a distant , deserted , dark burning . ground .