midnight
I know Nashville fairly well , and while it is of the undoubted South , it will be best for us , while we are here , to keep quiet tongues in our heads . We can not get a train out of the city until the afternoon . '' They were now in the station and everybody was going out . It was not much past midnight , and a cold wind blowing across the hills and the Cumberland River made Harry shiver in his overcoat . Once more he was glad of his new comradeship with a man so much his superior in years and worldly wisdom . Snow lay on the ground , but not so deep as in Kentucky . Houses , mostly of wood , and low , showed dimly through the dusk .