midnight
After the last three dreadful days , it did seem a kind of heaven to be taken right out of a life so hard and unlovely and so full of painful emotions ; to be kissed and flattered and to be treated like a lady . The four miles she had expected to walk went like a happy dream ; she was sorry when they were passed and the bare railway station was reached . It was but a small place lit by a single lamp , but Roland improvised a kind of couch , and told her to sleep while he watched and smoked a cigar . In a short time he returned , and said that there was no train to Plymouth until midnight ; but an express for London would pass in half an hour , and they had better take it . Denas thought a moment , and answered with a decision that made Roland look curiously at her : `` No . I will not go to London to be married . I know the preacher at Plymouth .