midnight
They journeyed on at a rate as fast as the rather tired horses could be urged to make . When the sun had set it grew dark , very dark in the forest . There was no moon ; and although it was a clear , starlight night , yet that did not help them much . They had to drive very slowly and carefully to avoid accidents , and it was indeed midnight when they drove up to the door of Hannah 's new home . It was too dark to see more of it than that it was a two-storied white cottage with a vine-clad porch , and that it stood in a garden on the edge of the wood . It is a quiet picture of delight , The humble cottage , hiding from the sun In the thick woods . You see it not till then , When at its porch .