midnight
`` You mean it , Eugene , surely ? '' she begged . `` As sure as I 'm holding you here , '' he replied . At midnight Angela lifted frightened , wondering , doubting eyes , feeling herself the most depraved creature . Two pictures were in her mind alternately and with pendulum-like reiteration . One was a composite of a marriage altar and a charming New York studio with friends coming in to see them much as he had often described to her . The other was of the still blue waters of Okoonee with herself lying there pale and still .