midnight
I should not have sent for you in any case . I heard you were ill and I tried to get up and go to you ; but it was not possible . Besides , they would not let me . I wanted to go to you again , because , somehow , I felt that midnight meeting in the hospital was a mistake ; that it ended as you would not really wish it to end . '' Again , with wonderful intuition for a man who knew so little of women , as he thought , he had said the one thing which could have cooled the anger that drowned the overwhelming gratitude she felt at his being alive -- overwhelming , in spite of the fact that her old mad temperament had flooded it for the moment . He would have gone to her -- that was what he had said . In spite of her conduct that midnight , when he was on his way to Hetmeyer 's Kopje , he would have come again to her !