midnight
So I think we may found a true and sufficient religion on our belief in the fact of a God , although we can form no conception whatever of his nature and the mode of his existence . ' But I should fatigue you , Fausta , were I to give you more of our conversation . It ran on equally pleasant , I believe , to all of us , to a quite late hour ; in which time , almost all that is peculiar to the faith of the Christians came under our review . It was more than midnight when we rose from our seats to retire to our chambers . But before we did that , a common feeling directed our steps to the tomb of Gallus , which was but a few paces from where we had been sitting . There these childless parents again gave way to their grief and was I stone , that I should not weep with them ? When this act of duty and piety had been performed , we sought our pillows .