midnight
She stayed in her room , attended by the entertaining Miss Noakes , who struggled manfully , so to speak , in her efforts to shatter the depression that surrounded the young girl like a blank wall . Downstairs Mary Braddock listened to David 's earnest eager plea for an immediate marriage . Now that Braddock had promised to leave at once for the far West , never to return , it seemed to David that all of their problems were solved . She had told him that her husband was to depart by the midnight train , and that it was her intention to go with him to the depot . David begged her to take him along with her , but she was firm in her determination to go alone . Braddock had made it a condition , and she could not break faith with him . Shortly after the noon hour she drove up town to the bank .