midnight
He did not need to remember Ruth 's kisses . For each breath of hilltop air , each emerald of moss , each shining mahogany surface in the room , repeated to him that he had found the Grail , whose other name is love . Saturday , they loafed over breakfast , the sun licking the tree-tops in the ravine outside the windows ; and they motored with the Kerrs to Lenox , returning through the darkness . Till midnight they talked on the terrace . They loafed again , the next morning , and let the fresh air dissolve the office grime which had been coating his spirit . They were so startlingly original as to be simple-hearted country lovers , in the afternoon , declining Kerr 's offer of a car , and rambling off on bicycles . From a rise they saw water gleaming among the trees .