midnight
More he could not say . The next afternoon , he sought an interview with the curate in his study , and told him every thing he had told Mr. Drake . The story seemed to explain a good deal more than it did , leaving the curate with the conviction that the disclosure of this former relation had caused the quarrel between him and his wife , and more doubtful than ever as to Juliet 's having committed suicide . It was a lovely moon-lighted midnight when they set out , the four of them , to walk from the gate across the park to the Old House . Like shadows they flitted over the green sward , all silent as shadows . Scarcely a word was spoken as they went , and the stray syllable now and then , was uttered softly as in the presence of the dead . Suddenly but gently opened in Juliet 's mind a sense of the wonder of life .