midnight
No , those admissions and denials of his had been addressed , without doubt , to a far more important person than myself . They had been in the nature of a remonstrance and assurance spoken to Frank Jervaise by the heir to the estate ; which heir was determined with all the force of his ferocious nose and dominant chin to help him , that he would not make a fool of himself for the sake of the daughter of a tenant farmer . I had been nothing more than the register upon which he had tentatively engraved that resolve . But he should have chosen a more stable testament than this avowal made to a whimsically-minded playwright with an absurd weakness for the beauties of a midnight wood . And if I had been a witness to his oath , I was , now , a witness to his foreswearing . He began well enough on the note proper to the heir of Jervaise . He had the aplomb to carry that off .