midnight
How easily they had renewed acquaintance . I had been surprised and embarrassed and awkward when I found her and Little Blue Flower down by the Flat Rock below St. Ann 's , in the Moon of the Peach Blossom . I remembered how I had monopolized all of her time in the days that followed , leaving good-natured Bev to look after the little Indian girl who never really seemed like an Indian to him . And keen-piercing as an arrow came now the memory of that midnight hour when I had seen the two in the little side porch of the Clarenden home , and again I heard the sorrowful words : `` Oh , Beverly , it breaks my heart . '' Eloise had just seen Beverly kiss Little Blue Flower in the shadows of the porch . And all the while , good-hearted , generous boy that he was , he had never tried to push his suit with her , had made her love him more , no doubt , by letting me have full command of all of her time , while he forgot himself in showing courtesy to the Indian girl , because Bev was first of all a gentleman . I thought of that dear hour in the church of San Miguel .