midnight
And the fifth day and the sixth were like unto the fourth . Constantly he caught himself on watch for the young woman , wondering how she would comport herself toward him , unwilling witness though he had been to that shabby scene . But , save distantly at meal times , he saw nothing of her . And though he knew that she was much on deck after midnight , he was studious to keep out of her way . The tedium of stopping in a stuffy stateroom , when the spell of restlessness was on him , waiting for the sounds of his neighbour 's return before he might venture forth , was nothing ; anything were preferable to figuring as the innocent bystander at another encounter between the Brooke girl and her reluctant lover ... . Then that happened which lent the business another complexion altogether . Its second phase , of close development , drew toward an end .