about midnight
Must I then live to see you another 's ? The streams , the fields , and meadows , where we have so often talked together , grow painful to me ; life itself is become a burden . May you long be happy in the world , but forget that there was ever such a man in it as This letter was conveyed to Constantia that very evening , who fainted at the reading of it ; and the next morning she was much more alarmed by two or three messengers that came to her father 's house , one after another , to inquire if they had heard anything of Theodosius , who , it seems , had left his chamber about midnight , and could nowhere be found . The deep melancholy which had hung upon his mind some time before made them apprehend the worst that could befall him . Constantia , who knew that nothing but the report of her marriage could have driven him to such extremities , was not to be comforted . She now accused herself for having so tamely given an ear to the proposal of a husband , and looked upon the new lover as the murderer of Theodosius .