midnight
Nan told him relentlessly . Thus passed the moment of exaltation and expansion . If Keith had come home to dine , it is probable that the barrier between them -- of which he was only dimly conscious -- would have been broken . But by midnight Nan had , as she imagined , `` thought out '' the situation . She was able to see him now through eyes purged of self-pity or self-thought . She came to full realization , which she formulated to herself , that she was not now the central point of his interest -- that she was `` no longer '' the central point , as she expressed it . She was right also in her conclusion that all day long he hardly gave her more than a perfunctory thought .