midnight
`` Miss Madison is anxious to get her into bed . Ca n't you dine with me to-night ? It would give me great pleasure , and men are superfluous , I have observed , when women have headaches . '' And Jack , who was not sorry to punish his wife , accepted the invitation and did not return home till midnight . Betty took Harriet to her own room and put her to bed . She had dinner for both sent upstairs , but Harriet would not eat ; neither would she speak . She lay in the bed , half on her face , as limp as the newly dead .