midnight
A woman so lofty ! So calm ! So afar off from every impropriety that you always feel it impossible in her presence to commit the least bit of innocent folly . Will you imagine her as Katherine Van Heemskirk in a short , quilted petticoat , with her hair hanging in two braids down her back , running away at midnight with General Hyde ! '' `` He was her husband . She committed no fault . '' `` I was thinking of the quilted petticoat , and the two braids ; for who now dresses so extravagantly and so magnificently as Madame Hyde ?