midnight
And then , at the close of it , Tris unfortunately said some words which showed how bitterly he regarded the years that had been stolen from him by Roland Tresham . And Denas resented the anger shown to this paling , dying shade of her memory , and the next day Tris went away with Mr. Arundel and did not return for full five weeks . But Mr. Arundel had been so much interested in the singer as to ask from Tris all that he could tell him of the life of Denas . And Tris , like all lovers , was only too glad to talk of the girl he adored ; so as they sat together at midnight on the lonely sea , with the full moon above them , they grew very confidential . Tris told all the story of his love , and Mr. Arundel told Tris about the beauty and accomplishments of the woman he was going to marry ; and there was , in this way , a kind of intimacy established which resulted in a financial proposition making the question of marriage a very easy and happy one to Captain Tristram Penrose , of the yacht _ Spindrift _ . That five weeks of lonely heartache taught Denas that Tris had become a very dear portion of her life , and when he returned he found it more easy than he had dared hope to induce her to bury for ever the strange years which a strange love had somehow slipped into her sheaf of life . And she promised Tris to let them fall from out her grasp , all the vain regrets , the vain hopes , the vain love which were garnered in them .