midnight
No doubt she fancied I returned immediately to my own house . So far from this , however , I passed hours alone , in the church-yard , sometimes musing on the dead , and then with all my thoughts bent on the living . I could see the light in Lucy 's window , and not till that was extinguished did I retire . It was long past midnight . I passed hours teeming with strange emotions among hose cedars . Twice I knelt by Grace 's grave , and prayed devoutly to God . It seemed to me that petitions offered in such a place must be blessed .