midnight
Soon it was communicated to hers . The strange secret of the blood electrified them both , and revealed the burning undercurrent running between them from the hearts of each . The light that showed how near they were to one another was kindled at the barrier dividing them . It remained as good as a secret , unchallenged until they had separated , and after midnight Cecilia looked through her . chamber windows at the driving moon of a hurricane scud , and read clearly his honourable reluctance to be wafted over to his French love by her assistance ; and Beauchamp on board the tossing steamboat perceived in her sympathetic reddening that she had divined him . This auroral light eclipsed the other events of the day . He drove into a town royally decorated , and still humming with the ravishment of the Tory entrance .