midnight
Again and again I looked behind . At one moment , when a big motor-car , with its two great white eyes , came rolling up after us , my stormy heart stood still . But it was not my husband 's car , and in a little while its red tail-light disappeared in the darkness ahead . We reached Blackwater in time for the midnight steamer and drew up at the landward end of the pier . It was cold ; the salt wind from the sea was very chill . Men who looked like commercial travellers were hurrying along with their coat-collars turned up , and porters with heavy trunks on their shoulders were striving to keep pace with them . I gave my own trunk to a porter who came up to the cart , and then turned to Tommy to say good-bye .