midnight
`` Arenta ! '' `` Oh , it is the truth ! It is the very truth , I assure you ! And while Hyde still lay between life and death , Miss Van Heemskirk married him ; and as soon as he was able , he carried her off at midnight to England ; and there they lived in a fine old house until the war . Then they came back to New York , and Hyde went into the Continental army and did great things , I suppose , for as we all knew , he was made a general . You should have heard Aunt Angelica tell the story . She remembered the whole affair .