midnight
`` Yet you have thought of someone he reminded you of ? '' The man was silent , but the wife tossed her head ever so lightly . `` Now , you must have had your reasons for that . No one thinks of a good and respectable neighbour in connection with the buying of a loaf of bread at midnight with a twenty-dollar bill , without some positive reason . '' `` The man wore a beard . I felt it brush my hand as he took the loaf . '' `` Good !