midnight
Time Jack was back from Hamburg with some more . '' When they reached Manchester , Mary looked very white , and the expression on her face was almost stern . She was in fact summoning up her resolution to meet her father if he were at home . Jem had never named his midnight glimpse of John Barton to human being ; but Mary had a sort of presentiment that wander where he would , he would seek his home at last . But in what mood she dreaded to think . For the knowledge of her father 's capability of guilt seemed to have opened a dark gulf in his character , into the depths of which she trembled to look . At one moment she would fain have claimed protection against the life she must lead , for some time at least , alone with a murderer !