midnight
She did not say more than was needed . If there were drooping hearts among her friends they were probably cheered . Then some more emotional talkers took up the exultant strain again . It was hard for Trenholme not to estimate the inner hearts of all these women by the words that he heard , and therefore to attribute all the grace of the midnight hour to the dead . When they got to the bottom of the hill , the farmer , at the request of men who had gone first , had another waggon in readiness to take home the women who had come to the hill on foot or who had sent away their vehicles . Many of them did not belong to the village of Chellaston . It was evidently better that the lighter waggon which had come from Chellaston should go round now to the outlying farms , and that all the villagers should return in that provided by the farmer .