midnight
Go hence , that you may not perish with the guilty . I only wish to live for the moment that I know you are happy and beyond the two seas ; then , for aught I care , death or Carinus may come . '' That very hour Manlius returned to Rome to set his house in order , and when he had made all the preparations for the wedding , he again mounted his horse , and late in the evening rode to old Mesembrius ' villa . It was already past midnight . The sky was covered with clouds . He could only move at a walk , when , on reaching a bridge , he saw a dark group of people coming from a side path . It seemed to be a band of prisoners guarded by soldiers .