midnight
Such enormous imputations from the mouth of Pleyel ! To be stigmatized with the names of wanton and profligate ! To be charged with the sacrifice of honor ! with midnight meetings with a wretch known to be a murderer and thief ! with an intention to fly in his company ! What I had heard was surely the dictate of phrenzy , or it was built upon some fatal , some incomprehensible mistake . After the horrors of the night ; after undergoing perils so imminent from this man , to be summoned to an interview like this ; to find Pleyel fraught with a belief that , instead of having chosen death as a refuge from the violence of this man , I had hugged his baseness to my heart , had sacrificed for him my purity , my spotless name , my friendships , and my fortune !