midnight
And as for Margaret , his wife , who lived his life and his philosophy , she , too , had nothing with which to satisfy the dull , empty feeling in her heart when she thought of Kenyon , save to make peace with it in hard metal and stupid stones . Thus does what we think crust over our souls and make us what we are . Grant Adams , plodding homeward that night , turned from the thought of Margaret to the thought of Kenyon with a wave of joy , counting the days and weeks and the months until the boy should return for the summer . At home Grant sat down before the kitchen table and began a long talk that kept him until midnight . He had undertaken to organize all the unions of the place into a central labor council ; the miners , the smeltermen , the teamsters , the cement factory workers , the workers in the building trades . It was an experimental plan , under the auspices of the national union officers . Only a man like Grant Adams , with something more than a local reputation as a leader , would have been intrusted with the work .