midnight
`` Beast ! '' she muttered . `` German schwein . '' It was after midnight when she heard him coming back . She prepared to leap out of her bed when he came up-stairs , to confront him angrily and tell him she was through . She was leaving home . But long after she had miserably cried herself to sleep , Herman sat below , his long-stemmed pipe in his teeth , his stockinged feet spread to the dying fire .