midnight
`` Irene , will my presence here aid or comfort you ? If so I will remain till morning . '' `` No ; you can do no good . It is midnight now , and you must be wearied with your long ride . You can not help me here , but to-morrow I shall want you to go with me to the cemetery . I wish his family to have the sad consolation of knowing that a minister knelt at his grave , when we laid the young patriot in his last resting-place . Good-bye , my brother , till then .