midnight
Remember how you reproached yourself for twenty years , because you were not there when the people were struggling against the Manteuffel reaction . And then -- your patients , your poor , the hundreds who have need of you . '' Schrotter did not answer , and seated himself on the divan . His massive face was gloomy as midnight , and the fiery blue eyes almost closed . After awhile he growled : `` But why -- why ? '' `` Oh , I suppose because of the fifteen hundred marks for the families of the dismissed workmen . '' `` Of course ! ''