midnight
She felt a new strength of body and a fresh clearness of mind as , with grim patience , she set herself to wait . The clocks in the house were all still . Miss Evelina 's watch had long ago been sold . There was no town clock in the village , but the train upon which she had come was due shortly after midnight . She knew every step of the way by dark as well as by daylight , but the night was clear and there would be the light of the dying moon , Her own clouded skies were clearing . Dimly she began to perceive herself as a part of things , not set aside helplessly to suffer eternally , but in some sort of relation to the rest of the world . On the Sunday before the catastrophe , Miss Evelina had been to church , and even yet , she remembered fragments of the sermon .