midnight
`` Like as not , when I open my eyes again he 'll be clear gone . '' This was where the dream ended and complete oblivion began . * * * * * How long it lasted she could not have told ; she only knew she was awake at last and acutely conscious of everything about her ; and that she was warm -- warm -- warm ! The room was dark except for the firelight ; but whether it was evening or night or midnight , she could not have guessed . She found herself speculating in a hazy fashion where she was , whose house they had broken into , and what the tinker had done with himself . She had a vague , far-away feeling that she ought to be disturbed over something -- her complete isolation with a strange companion on a night like this ; but the physical contentment , the reaction from bodily torture , drugged her sensibilities . She closed her eyes lazily again and listened to the wind howling outside with the never-ceasing accompaniment of beating rain .