midnight
`` Well , '' said George , `` I am pushing that on . The old man wo n't come round , and I want her to go off with me ; but she ca n't get up her courage yet . '' But in a few days Mary had consented . They had left the village at midnight , and were married in London . Within a year George Hawker had spent all his wife 's money , and had told her to her face he was tired of her . He fell from bad to worse , and finally becoming the ally of a coiner , was arrested and transported for life . Mary Hawker , with a baby , tramped her way home to the village she had left .