midnight
But for all her spontaneity she 's as subtle as a needle-point , and knows tremendously well what she is about . If she is not a consummate coquette ... What had she in her head when she said that I should not have gone away ? -- Poor little Stanmer did n't go away . I left him there at midnight . 12th . -- I found him today sitting in the church of Santa Croce , into which I wandered to escape from the heat of the sun . In the nave it was cool and dim ; he was staring at the blaze of candles on the great altar , and thinking , I am sure , of his incomparable Countess .