midnight
What is there in the world that really has an end ? That is all very well , said the girls , but the book must certainly have some ending . The last scene , one of ineffable beauty , should describe a walk at night and by moonlight through the streets of Bruges , when the souls of the priest and the maiden should be revealed to one another , and they should commune half as lovers , half dreaming like prophets . The two should find themselves at midnight beside the sleeping waters of the Lac d'Amour , listening in silence to the weird notes of the _ carillon _ under the clouds , and then should come to them the vague revelation of a sexuality of their souls , of a future of love in the star Fomalhaut . `` But why especially in Fomalhaut ? '' exclaimed Noemi . `` You are really intolerable , '' answered Carlino .