midnight
And last of all she remembered at the very beginning of her life in Torso the face of that man in her husband 's office and how he had begged for cars , and his cry , `` My God ! I shall go bankrupt ! '' Out of it all -- the newspaper paragraphs , the legal terms , the editorial innuendoes , the memories -- there was shaped something like a coherent picture of what this dispute really meant , and her husband 's concern in it . It was now midnight . Isabelle 's mind was stung to keen apprehension . She did not know whether John was guilty of what the government was seeking to prove him guilty . She could not judge whether the government was justified in bringing suit against the railroad and its officials .