midnight
`` That is true . I remember coming to myself for an instant , and it seemed that we were being jerked along at the rate of a gunshot . My God , it was awful ! It was as black as condensed midnight . I felt your warm body against me and was glad I was not alone . Then I went off again , but into a sort of nightmare . I thought I was in Hell , and that you were with me , and that Professor Helmholtz was Satan . ''