midnight
But , God bless my soul ! -- '' He passed his hand over his grey hairs and stared down the corridor after her . The roads were heavy to start , with , and beyond Chard they grew heavier . At Honiton , which our travellers reached at midnight , it was snowing ; and Dorothea , when the sleepy chamber-maid aroused her at dawn , looked out upon a forbidding world of white . The postboys were growling , and she half feared that Endymion would abandon the journey for the day . But if he lacked her zeal , he had the true Englishman 's hatred of turning back . She , who had known him always for a master of men , learned a new awe of her splendid brother .