midnight
` It is not right ! ' ` I am only going to Rouen , to Aunt Charlotte ! ' she implored . ` I want to get to Southampton , to be in time for the midnight steamer . When I am at Rouen I can negotiate with Lord Mountclere the terms on which I will return to him . It is the only chance I have of rooting out a scandal and a disgrace which threatens the beginning of my life here ! My letters to him , and his to me , can be forwarded through you or through father , and he will not know where I am .