midnight
She wrote brutally ; for mixed with her jealousy there was a savage anger with Owen as the cause of Laura 's suffering . She hated the Kiddy , but she could n't bear to see her suffer . There were two days yet before the mail went ; but she posted her letter at once , while her nerve held out . The thing done , she sat up till midnight brooding over it . It had taken all her nerve . For she did not want Prothero to come back , and that letter would bring him . Bodily separation from Owen had not killed her ; it had become the very condition of her life ; for there was a soul of soundness in her .