midnight
She had money to take her to Cologne , but she would have none to bring her back again . It seemed to her as she went that there could be no prospect to her returning to a home which she had disgraced so thoroughly . At Mannheim she found that she was obliged to wait over four hours before the boat started . She quitted the railway a little after midnight , and she was told that she was to be on board before five in the morning . The night was piercing cold , though never so cold as had been that other night ; and she was dismayed at the thought of wandering about in that desolate town . Some one , however , had compassion on her , and she was taken to a small inn , in which she rested on a bed without removing her clothes . When she rose in the morning , she walked down to the boat without a word of complaint , but she found that her limbs were hardly able to carry her .