midnight
`` Perhaps not . But I know the ways of men . '' Though Kitty had not accomplished her mission she so far prevailed that she carried her Lucy off to dinner . It was somewhere towards midnight , when all the house was quiet , that Lucia first looked into Keith Rickman 's sonnets . She had been led to expect something in the nature of a personal revelation , and the first sonnet struck the key-note , gave her the clue . I asked the minist ` ring priests who never tire In love 's high service , who behold their bliss Through golden gloom of Love 's dread mysteries , What heaven there be for earth 's foregone desire ? And they kept silence .