midnight
And how could she bear to see my face ? I went home very heavy-hearted . My husband tried to comfort me with words that had no balm for either his troubled heart or mine . The great fact of our having put the cup of confusion to that young man 's lips , and sent him forth at midnight in no condition to find his way home , stood out too sharply defined for any self-delusion . I did not venture to the house of my friend again . She had dropped a curtain between us , and I said , `` It shall be a wall of separation . '' Not until spring opened was the body of Albert Martindale recovered .