midnight
thought Kitty , `` I did n't suppose they were so rude . I 'm afraid I must say good night , '' she added aloud , after a little , and stole away the most conscience-stricken creature on that boat . She heard those people laugh again after she left them . The next morning , when Mr. Arbuton awoke , he found a clear light upon the world that he had left wrapped in fog at midnight . A heavy gale was blowing , and the wide river was running in seas that made the boat stagger in her course , and now and then struck her bows with a force that sent the spray from their seething tops into the faces of the people on the promenade . The sun , out of rifts of the breaking clouds , launched broad splendors across the villages and farms of the level landscape and the crests and hollows of the waves ; and a certain joy of the air penetrated to the guarded consciousness of Mr. Arbuton . Involuntarily he looked about for the people he meant to have nothing more to do with , that he might appeal to the sympathies of one of them , at least , in his sense of such an admirable morning .