midnight
They did not wish to hide their passion . At last they went into the garden . He flung a light cloak over her shoulders and put her in a waiting cab . They caught the midnight train to Paris ; and they sped through the silent , star-lit night into the unknown . He thought of this old fancy of his , and it seemed impossible that he should be in love with Mildred Rogers . Her name was grotesque . He did not think her pretty ; he hated the thinness of her , only that evening he had noticed how the bones of her chest stood out in evening-dress ; he went over her features one by one ; he did not like her mouth , and the unhealthiness of her colour vaguely repelled him .